BMW Turned the BMW M3 CS Into Every Driving Purist’s Dream With the Handschalter

BMW M has done something that, frankly, nobody expected from a company that spent the last five years telling us the future is electric and the kidney grille is fine. They built a manual, rear-wheel-drive M3 CS. Not a watered-down special edition with a badge and a plaque. A proper, lightweight, track-tuned, 473 hp, three-pedal, rear-drive farewell to the sixth-generation M3, which reads as a letter BMW M wrote to every forum poster who has been yelling into the void since 2018. It is called the M3 CS Handschalter. “Handschalter” is German for “manual gearbox.” BMW literally named the car “manual gearbox” to a …