Highlights

Rare CS model – one of only 233 RHD UK cars
Substantial history file
Desirable Interlagos Blue metallic paint
Lower than average mileage – 74,000
Sought-after manual transmission

Overview
To BMW aficionados with a penchant for purity and no-frills engineering, the CSL badge is something of a unicorn.

Standing for ‘Coupé Sport Leichtbau’, the E46 M3 CSL represented a paring-back of luxuries in order to refract the focus of performance driving through a motorsport filter.

But there’s far more to the E46 story than its track-hungry CSL crescendo.

The Interlagos Blue M3 you see here is, in fact, something more obscure and, arguably, in certain quarters, even more desirable.

Because you see, everybody knows what the CSL is, it became a poster-boy for a generation.

But what we have here is an M3 CS with a manual gearbox, and it’s a thoroughly intriguing proposition.
The name denotes ‘Club Sport’; essentially, many of the best bits of the CSL but without the inflated price t...