That's what this BMW Z3 M Coupe owner from South Africa thought, but since these cars are becoming a bit of a collector's item, he decided not to mess with its original engine and transmission pair.

This is what seems to have happened in Bulgaria, where a teen racer decided that he must place a 5.0 liter V10 engine (the one from the outgoing BMW M5) under the hood of a BMW Z3 coupe, as 0 ...

You’ve seen the Z3. It’s tiny. There are shoes bigger than the Z3. And yet, in 1999, the mad scientists at BMW decided it would be fun to stuff a massive V12 engine under the hood of one.

A closer look at BMW’s Z3, M Coupe and M Roadster, the first BMWs never built in Germany. We dive into the generations, differences, specifications, and driving characteristics of each version ...