I swear, I’m not a manual transmission evangelist, but the 2021 BMW M3 makes it hard not to be. For the vast majority of modern road cars—and crucially, the people who use them—the manual isn’t ...

For decades now the tip of BMW’s high-performance spear has been the M3, the hottest version of its best-selling sports sedan. Complemented by the M4 coupe (which joined the party in the mid-2010s, ...