Actually, the No Limits M3 GTR can be considered canon because Razor comes to Blackridge (No Limits city) to get to back M3 GTR and we learn that it is #1 in Blackridge Blacklist and try to knock it down. Kim (the girl who helped us with no limits) also mentions Rockport. So the No Limits M3 GTR could be the real M3 GTR rather than a replica.
it is the real M3 GTR, it ticks all the boxes, plus razor is a permanent resident of blackridge as he often appears in some story events, now is a neutral character also, joe from heat is there too
It’s the real one but at the same time Razor is terrified of it and that you have it, it was hilarious getting the car in the game cuz it gave him Vietnam flashbacks of the OG Character who beat his ass. Also the OG character contacts you in No Limits and says, Rockport, and the other cities he raced in on Underground 1-2, Carbon are his cities but you can have the NoLimits city cuz he thinks it’s a shithole which made me laugh
@@civicrider5556in the Eclipse event wich features the Volvo Polestar 1, right? That one looks more of a replica, with the wrong tone of yellow, closer to an orange and the concave turbofan wheels that were added with the car. Why they added the concave turbofan instead of the wheels used in Heat? (Rethorical question)
I personally like to believe that “The Blacklist” from Unbound is the Player Character from MW and Carbon, as they were the only person from Rockport’s Blacklist that didn’t get arrested at the end of MW.
I can tell y'all why the M3 GTR sounds the way it does Back when the car was being used in the 24 hours of LeMan, they swapped out the traditional 6-speed manual transmission with a sequential gearbox with straight cut gears, which creates that high-pitched whine as you climb into the higher RPM range As for the V8, it was a prototype motor that never saw production after its use in the M3 GTR
There's actually a couple M3s with an actual V8 that are street legal but very rare to find they made them to be able to continue to use that version in racing since the M3 only came with i6
I think "The Blacklist" from Unbound is either the MC from U1, 2, MW, Carbon or even crazier Razor. Think about it, roughly 15 years passed since Razor went in prison for street racing, he would be free by the time Unbound happens, given all the games happen in the year they were released (roughly)
@@snakeeyes7165yyup, it's pretty heavily implied that the client was Razor. My spin on the story is that Unbound happens before Heat contrary to the release order of the games. So after Speedie's turn Mercer's gang intercepted it from the delivery chain to Razor, and now it's with the Heat protagonist. The pink slip is likely still with Razor if it wasn't in the car when we took it back in MW'05.
@@janosd4nukeI'd love playing as Razor in the new NFS games.. imagine if we had to race Hero/MW '05 MC and Player/Heat MC for the BMW M3 GTR with a newer Mustang, or heck, his old Mustang that he got from stealing it from the Impound Lot.
id love to see a nfs game in the future where the entire premise is your character from mw and carbon tracking down the car, completing missions and beating racers in order to get information leading to the cars owner and location. and then at the end you beat the guy, get the car back, and keep it leading into a sequel where the entire premise of that game is to keep people from stealing your m3 youve waited decades for and worked so hard to get back
currently the latest story says that you stole the car from the docks in order to deliver it to 'razor' who just got out of prison and wanted it badly, so the M3 GTR is back in razor's hands...
Not really, correct me if I'm wrong but they never used the M3 as marketing for any game (apart from being a dlc in most wanted 2012), but rather as a bonus or special vehicle usually at the end of the game. So yeah they use it because obviously they know is probably the easiest way to get he fans happy but I don't think it's for the money
Maybe the player character got the car way earlier than 2004? Like maybe 2001? And he had been keeping the race car in his garage for quite a while, though he did maintain it so it didn't waste away But after that botched race in 2004, he had no choice but to dump the Supra or sell it off near his garage and took out the M3 for the first drive in a long while
Unlikely, considering that the Most wanted left palmon city with the Toyota Supra the very same night, leaving no time to change car in the city. (Also we saw in the very same cutscene the Toyota Supra in the highway leaving the city) So the M3 GTR must reach his hand after leaving palmon city
@blackfangex6813 My guy, we only see him making his way to either Fortuna or Silverton, it's likely he just ditches the car to grab his M3 GTR from the garage he stored it in, and it's likely the Autozone garage in Fortuna that is the nearest to where he was going
I know this might not be true but it’s my headcannon. I like to believe the MC is the underground 1/2 MC, and the way they got their hands on the M3 was from the sponsorships they been winning throughout their time in bay view.
I believe the guy who requested the M3 GTR from Unbound is actually the Player from Most wanted/Carbon, he’s still #1 on the blacklist and we don’t even have any evidence that Razor got released from prison
Cars now 20 years old and one of the most iconic characters from the NFS franchise, it needs it's own story from how it was liberated from Le Mans to present day, across different main characters and locations
The M3 GTR was an odd choice at first but fit in so well with MostWanted´s other Blacklist cars. The others cars arent the flashy Underground cars but more GT inspired and have alot more serious and darker tone. The many IRL MostWanted M3 Replicas show that it is achievable in the looks department while that famous V8 gearboy whine can only be had with the few real racecars that got built :) Sadly I think EA milked this car a bit too much instead of focusing on new unique Halo cover cars...
I am 90% convinced that the car is actually cursed (blessed?) with supernatural black magic or something, in the "NFS cinematic universe". The way it always appears wherever there is some new hot races and police chases going on and appears before the "protagonist", whoever that is; and how it almost always manages to appear fully repaired and ready to wreck havoc despite crashing on multiple occasions (e.g. at the start of Carbon and at the end of Heat)
4:30 a car is only totaled, if the owner says it is, the player spent god knows how long earning that car back, only for the game to go “yeah it’s broke now” BULL. He would’ve gotten it fixed. If they said that and made it unavailable until the mid to late game, that would’ve been cool.
honestly should have been what you get for beating darius instead of just unlocking everything that you didn't already,would have been neat,but then again carbon was RUSHED,VERY VERY RUSHED
Explaining need for speed most wanted just brings me back to my childhood man. 10/10 best need for speed. Loved it. The story, the gameplay, everything. I really hope they remaster it.
6:31 actually, in NFS ProStreet, you can't buy it, but in some rare occasions, in some events, a BMW M3 with this livery appears, but the car is silver with the white livery (at least in my gameplays), and is rare ASF, I only saw this in 4 occasions when I was playing the career mode (I made the game 100% and it was only in drift events for some reason). So, yes and no at the same time.
In Need For Speed Heat , you can get the real sound of the M3 GTR with a mod called UNITE that changes the transmision and engine sound from the original NFS Most Wanted and carbon , with that mod is the most realistic car from the original and from all NFS games on date.
still won't sound the same bc in Heat the engine has 1000 RPM lower redline than the MW/C version, i guess they are taking the Strassenversion as a reference point bc other games that feature M3 GTR did the same as well
The BMW M3 GTR with one of my favorite cars in need for speed. It was basically one of the fastest cars in the game, so yeah no wonder why I love it so much because I love that V8 engine sound when it does the mechanical wine
This car can also be recreated in NFS Shift & Shift 2. What you have to do is get an E46 M3, fully upgrade it, get the Works conversion kit, and then you just replicate the livery. There is a preset livery in Shift 1 tho that looks vaguely like it, but it’s still not close.
My honest theory is that nfs heat is the origin of the m3 gtr and not rockport. The player character in 05 is not an established character (eventhough people like to say its Ryan Cooper...its not)...I believe the character in 05 and carbon is your character in heat. (Ik the cutscenes show a white guy as the player but still, the characters identity remains unknown)...So you leave carbon and begin your story in underground, then underground 2...then before you go to rockport, you go to palm city, where you get the car as a thank you for ridding the city of corrupt cops. THEN you go to rockport...Everything that happened in rockport with you and the car has made such a massive impact on street racing as a whole in need for speed that you gained a massive following of fans who went and built replicas (hence why 2012, 2015, undercover, and payback has a false m3 gtr to use)....Either way, the car was totaled off in carbon and was gone....then the protagonist may have moved to lakeshore, and had the car shipped over under the radar, for the protagonist in unbound to deliver. Edit: Nfs Unbound has released volume 9 and now has the Canonical m3 gtr that we last saw 19 years ago. My theory still stands. Only that now, Razor has been searching for it, so he teams up with the new protagonist to search for it in the lockdown game mode
My problem with that is...heat takes place in 2019 as far as i'm aware,and most wanted in 2005 assuming the year the game released is relevant to it taking place in that year.
@Damian-cilr2 the only moment that I'm aware of that most wanted becomes aware of its time was when Mia first mentions cross in a voice-mail, stating that he drives a "C6 Corvette" (which was brand new at the time)...but I mean, you can say that nowadays too since there are far newer models of corvettes now. Nfs heat never really acknowledges its time at all other than the Cross memorial bridge which is just a small Easter egg. (If the bridge lore is ever confirmed to be canonical then my entire theory is fucked. so I don't like to mention the bridge).
They really did a gem with the unbound version just wish we could use it. I really hope theres a most wanted remake also. Theres talkings about a most wanted 2024, we will see in the future!
You actually missed an appearance. In prostreet at one of the organizations (I think it's G-effect) there is an AI M3 E46 that is done up to resemble the M3 GTR. There is one major change however, all the blue on the car is changed to a dark grey.
I'm surprised this guy can tell it's not the real deal without any trouble with the fact that seeing how all of them looking the same without knowing which ones which is the troubling part for everyone else 😯
All I know is, we need the MW and Carbon protagonist back. After the shitshow that where the Ghost Games NFS, and Unbound being quite ok tbh, it's time to see that glorious bastard with his high pitched GTR in action I know the M3 got wrecked in the beginning of Carbon, put there's no shot this was the end. Let the next game have the story of the MW protagonist trying to get his car back, or hell, bring Razor back who's also looking for this beauty, just do something at this point. I dont care if it would be nostalgia bait
yeah i would also love if the protagonist returns and we finaly can see his story with his car too an end. because that car was only his car not someone elses car.
Imagine next nfs being”nfs blacklisted” it will be about maybe ryan cooper, maybe someone other than him trying to hunt down and get his m3 e46 gtr. He has to go up against car “pirates”, that try to steal fancy cars for themselves with races. In the end, the “blacklist” guy. The ending will be huge ass word “blacklisted” on the screen and mc drives away in the dawn.
Underground 2 and most wanted us peak nfs and I'm sad we may never get another like them. And razor calling in that delivery for the gtr took me off guard like, why him, why not main character from most wanted wanting his car back after being totaled
It's really dissapointing that after everything you've been through just to get that car back in MW, it gets totaled in Carbon and much worse, Razor manages to get his hands on your car... again
why and how was his car stolen again after it get totaled, he never would have sold it too anyone, he would repair it back after that crash, he earned enough money too do so. he has gone thru too much too get it back and then left it like that or sell it. nowone ever would do that with an car you gone thru so much.
@@Super-Godzilla99 I don't think they explain it and the fact that unbound says razor kind of frustrated me like really!? Why couldnt you say something else like "idk his name. Just some guy." Something to noded toward us as the main character. After all it was OUR CAR. Still wouldn't mind a in-between game to see how the main character got the m3 gtr before going into Rockport. We go from supra in carbon to m3 gtr. And have the game in style of underground 2 meets most wanted
Not sure if anyone's said it, but the M3 GTR does technically make a cameo in Prostreet, in one of the challenge race days (I forget which) you get to drive it in a grip race, on some sort of really tricky course that I've personally never enjoyed. The car looked pretty decent too, but given that everyone's racing in that car it's definitely a replica
in unbound there is another dialogue after picking up the m3 gtr. Yaz says: "this guy just got out of jail and the first thing he did was order this car" (might not be the exact words but its very similar to what she said)
imagine if the final hoorah of the need for speed franchise is an all out race with all the need for speed final bosses in their respective iconic cars
but razor should be in his mustang not in the m3 gtr, because the gtr is the players car not the bosses car. razor was the only boss that stole the players car in the entire need for speed franshise, all the other bosses have their own car.
I would love to see Derek Hamilton return as Razor. The short fan made videos we got were so well done. We need a Razor Redemption story, him as the protagonist but not with the M3, but rather the Mustang...
there is no redemption for him he stole the players car and he was the only boss in the entire need for speed franshise that done it. there should be an need for speed game where you can play as the player form the 4 games where you can conclude his story, because his story has no end too this day, and the end we got he didn`t get his own car the m3 gtr back.
Underground, most wanted and carbon are all sequels. The player is from underground as they’re a quote in the introduction saying “look what the underground let loose”.
It would be cool if on the next nfs ryan cooper showed up in the original m3 gtr with the iconic m3 gtr sound confirming the theory of ryan cooper being the protagonist of underground, most wanted and carbon too
@@still_guns I mean there are some dialogues that make references but nothing that confirms it, its just a cool theory. Really hope either way that they bring the original m3 gtr with the iconic sound and at least some decent performance unlike heat and unbound
just so it's said, while the m3 gtr racecars are most famous for having a v8, they did race them in straight 6 configurations as well, most notably after porsche got the homoligation rules changed to make the v8 too expensive for bmw to justify. There are also several GTR chassies that has raced with s62 m5 based motors, but those did not race in ALMS
I just got nfs unbound, I went to my local game store with my dad, bought the game because I thought it looked cool and I’ve heard good things about nfs unbound. The game is still in its case and sitting upstairs on my desk. I’m gonna play it for the first time in a few hours, I hope it’s good.
I mean, You werent Wrong. Almost 2 years later And The custom m4 Has Appeared in Volume 9. Should Update this :P For the 2 version of the m3 That now Exist in Unbound
In NFS Pro Street, there are some appearance of an e46 AI with the livery, but it's gray / white coloured, not blue like the OG. It's very rare appearance, in my few playtrough I only see it 2 times at drift events.
something that i don't understand is why this car reach 8.500 rpm before red line (Most Wanted) and in the recent games it can reach just 7.500 rpm? Is not the same engine? They change it? if so, why?
@@still_guns and that car from BMW is the real deal, the real life car from most wanted. you can`t get it more acurate then that. everything else is a replica. even balck box took this car as the hero car in most wanted, they just replaced the livery with there own creation thats all. and now BMW replaced their own livery with the most wanted livery more meta that is just not possible.
What I think happened was the car was truly totaled but this was around the time rebuilding techniques started to drastically evolve to rebuilding a totaled car started to take shape . So likely a spare e46 was used to help rebuild the GTR you can tell by the trunk that it has in both need for speed, heat and unbound, but I think the protagonist for he sold the car because of how hot the car was from its days in Rockport and they didn't want to take any chances . But to make an E46 look like a GTR is not that difficult at all If you know what you're doing, we'll get the other e46s to look like the GTR in most wanted on Instagram and social media and you'll see what I'm talking about
Also, we don't know if it's razor or the protagonist from most wanted in carbon. Probably at that point the protagonists likely moved on from the car. Didn't care that much about it. No more, especially after the events of carbon
why should the protagonist sell that car, he gone thru so much too get it back, nownone would belive he sold it too anyone no matter how much they want it. nowone would abandon and sell a car you have so much history with.
Guys i know it’s non cannon but the M3 GTR is in grid legends. Like imagine the look of sgt cross when he sees the most wanted GTR racing in Grid championship lmao
I wanna do my best to contribute to this theory As mentioned from a comment i saw these cars can be mass produced and the manufacturer has no budget and is unlimited and could be multiple so. My theory: After the car was "totaled" in carbon during the chase in carbon canyon someone found the m3 gtr and knowing its history found replacement parts and eventually restored it fully after the restoration mercer heard that it was restored and wanted to get his hands on the bmw m3 gtr and eventually got his hands on it during the scheme. and once it was found out ran but failed to escape. after the player gets its hands on the m3 gtr they sell it to some person and going to unbound. when hearing about the m3 gtr and asked to get it from "the blacklist" finds it and manages to steal the car and deliver it i speculate "the blacklist" to be razor for razor being released by now and wanting it back just like in speed most wanted 2005
my head canon for the m3 thats in 2015 is that the player or maybe amy were a fan or heard the legend of the m3 and tried to replicate it of course unsuccesfully which might explain that random decals
I really despise this franchise and the fanbase alone because of the amount of toxicity and this m3 gtr being in these games that ea will never let go of. Guys, go to college instead of going online arguing with people about how right you are and being passive aggressive. Socialize with a real human, and stop being a low self esteem bully.
it actually starts from Carbon, and its obvious because of 1 Canon cutscene and the appearance of Darius after the M3 was Totaled by *Croc* Basically, They already knew each other since. And that "someone" Mentioning a Person in the underground is on the loose is none other than the Homie of the player, Rog, he probably heard the news about the previous city before Player came to Rockport
I know im late to the party but can we really believe that in NFS Heat we are just...gifted a highly notorious car after it's been wrecked again and possibly involved in a possibility blue on blue..."incident". I find that very hard to believe. I think it's more possible it was taken to a police impound, locked up till bought and restored where we... somehow steal it in Unbound. There's also the EA rewards M3 GTR in online but I don't think that should be included. Replica maybe? But not included.
I think NFS 2015 did the same sort of thing with the Mustang Hoonicorn as it’s not completely accurate either. It has a different set of rims, it has chrome trim pieces where it shouldn’t, and more
Imagine the next NFS is MW II and it has Razor as the protagonist and the MW-Carbon player character is the villain or something... Maybe I'm thinking too far into the future but it's just an idea after all.
MW-Carbon character got happy ending at the end of carbon, and might be moved on from M3 GTR, he have palmont city under his control and an Audi concept car from darius lol, Razor as protoganist trying to get the car back while getting bounty hunted by cross might be more interesting, since both character already referenced in the last need for speed game
Why would it be that the MW-C Protagonist be the villain? We don't know the players intentions. Razor is more likely to be the villain due to his vengeance against the player.
Yo I’m a little bit late but is it me or is the M3 gtr that appears in the garage scene, on the rear bumper it looks like it was newly totalled. It could be the dents and scratches from nfs carbon or just scratches from a police car ramming them
than the player from heat must be the protagonist from underground 1 - 2, most wanted and carbon because the m3 gtr is his car not someone elses car and he never would sell it or abandon it.
I think Vol 9 update invalidates Heat and Unbound Story GTR appearances as the real deal. In Vol 9 where THE actual Razor is present in Lockdown, you can find the GTR with a Palmont impound sticker on the window and with an abandoned look. That means that the real GTR apepared only in MW05, Carbon and Unbound (online), all the others being replicas or tributes.
Even Roblox on the playstation has a picture when you hover over the game icon and in the bottom right you can see the same NFS BMW all blurred out. And my kids will never notice this.
Unless the car was completely restored for heat and unbound EVERY SINGLE CAR we see is a replica because the car was totaled in the beginning of Carbon which is the CANON sequel to MW05
yeah until we get an answer what the player did with his totaled car we have no story further with the m3 gtr from most wanted and the start of carbon. i just can`t believe the player won all this money in carbon and didn`t restore his own car back. it was his car and he gone too so much too get it back nowone would believe he abandon that car so easily just because the car is totaled.
Actually, the No Limits M3 GTR can be considered canon because Razor comes to Blackridge (No Limits city) to get to back M3 GTR and we learn that it is #1 in Blackridge Blacklist and try to knock it down. Kim (the girl who helped us with no limits) also mentions Rockport. So the No Limits M3 GTR could be the real M3 GTR rather than a replica.
it is the real M3 GTR, it ticks all the boxes, plus razor is a permanent resident of blackridge as he often appears in some story events, now is a neutral character
also, joe from heat is there too
It’s the real one but at the same time Razor is terrified of it and that you have it, it was hilarious getting the car in the game cuz it gave him Vietnam flashbacks of the OG Character who beat his ass. Also the OG character contacts you in No Limits and says, Rockport, and the other cities he raced in on Underground 1-2, Carbon are his cities but you can have the NoLimits city cuz he thinks it’s a shithole which made me laugh
@@irondeathgaming9032 considering the amount of things happening in blackridge, the guy won't be able to handle (including supernatural events)
@@civicrider5556in the Eclipse event wich features the Volvo Polestar 1, right? That one looks more of a replica, with the wrong tone of yellow, closer to an orange and the concave turbofan wheels that were added with the car. Why they added the concave turbofan instead of the wheels used in Heat? (Rethorical question)
Isn't it an M4 in No Limits, rather than an M3 GTR?
I personally like to believe that “The Blacklist” from Unbound is the Player Character from MW and Carbon, as they were the only person from Rockport’s Blacklist that didn’t get arrested at the end of MW.
Yax says 'some guy got out of jail and first thing he wants is this car' or however it goes. That says Razor to me, since player wasn't arrested.
@@still_guns for all we know, the player character was arreseted between Carbon and Heat
@@My0ldFr13ndWhere did you hear it?
@@watchmangamer4380 it's my own theory. As I said: "for all we know"
The player in unbound mentioned razor’s edge at the end of the call
I can tell y'all why the M3 GTR sounds the way it does
Back when the car was being used in the 24 hours of LeMan, they swapped out the traditional 6-speed manual transmission with a sequential gearbox with straight cut gears, which creates that high-pitched whine as you climb into the higher RPM range
As for the V8, it was a prototype motor that never saw production after its use in the M3 GTR
And we love it
There's actually a couple M3s with an actual V8 that are street legal but very rare to find they made them to be able to continue to use that version in racing since the M3 only came with i6
@@christianmontano2361BMW owns all V8 BMW M3 GTRs, They have them as showcase in a dealer
@@LexiDaoC would be cool if they stylized one of them after the "Hero" car from MW
They actually used a TVR Cerbera's engine sound for the M3 GTR in MW/Carbon
I think "The Blacklist" from Unbound is either the MC from U1, 2, MW, Carbon or even crazier Razor. Think about it, roughly 15 years passed since Razor went in prison for street racing, he would be free by the time Unbound happens, given all the games happen in the year they were released (roughly)
The Blacklist is almost certainly Razor.
the phone call mentions living on the "razor's edge", too.@@still_guns
@@snakeeyes7165yyup, it's pretty heavily implied that the client was Razor.
My spin on the story is that Unbound happens before Heat contrary to the release order of the games. So after Speedie's turn Mercer's gang intercepted it from the delivery chain to Razor, and now it's with the Heat protagonist.
The pink slip is likely still with Razor if it wasn't in the car when we took it back in MW'05.
@@still_gunswe songs you used in the video 😊
@@janosd4nukeI'd love playing as Razor in the new NFS games.. imagine if we had to race Hero/MW '05 MC and Player/Heat MC for the BMW M3 GTR with a newer Mustang, or heck, his old Mustang that he got from stealing it from the Impound Lot.
id love to see a nfs game in the future where the entire premise is your character from mw and carbon tracking down the car, completing missions and beating racers in order to get information leading to the cars owner and location. and then at the end you beat the guy, get the car back, and keep it leading into a sequel where the entire premise of that game is to keep people from stealing your m3 youve waited decades for and worked so hard to get back
currently the latest story says that you stole the car from the docks in order to deliver it to 'razor' who just got out of prison and wanted it badly, so the M3 GTR is back in razor's hands...
19:50 till the end read the subtitles.
or they might be just milking the var for money its very iconic afterall if its in the game it will get more demand
Yeah but we're not talking meta here
Let our imagination fly
Nice
Not really, correct me if I'm wrong but they never used the M3 as marketing for any game (apart from being a dlc in most wanted 2012), but rather as a bonus or special vehicle usually at the end of the game. So yeah they use it because obviously they know is probably the easiest way to get he fans happy but I don't think it's for the money
@@poue unbound had it as a fast bought unlock if you didnt want to play the game iirc
Maybe the player character got the car way earlier than 2004? Like maybe 2001?
And he had been keeping the race car in his garage for quite a while, though he did maintain it so it didn't waste away
But after that botched race in 2004, he had no choice but to dump the Supra or sell it off near his garage and took out the M3 for the first drive in a long while
Unlikely, considering that the Most wanted left palmon city with the Toyota Supra the very same night, leaving no time to change car in the city. (Also we saw in the very same cutscene the Toyota Supra in the highway leaving the city)
So the M3 GTR must reach his hand after leaving palmon city
@blackfangex6813 My guy, we only see him making his way to either Fortuna or Silverton, it's likely he just ditches the car to grab his M3 GTR from the garage he stored it in, and it's likely the Autozone garage in Fortuna that is the nearest to where he was going
@@abluecar5375 not really hahaha its not that deep my guy
@KLMN2003 Cool captain obvious, you got anything else to say?
I know this might not be true but it’s my headcannon.
I like to believe the MC is the underground 1/2 MC, and the way they got their hands on the M3 was from the sponsorships they been winning throughout their time in bay view.
I believe the guy who requested the M3 GTR from Unbound is actually the Player from Most wanted/Carbon, he’s still #1 on the blacklist and we don’t even have any evidence that Razor got released from prison
Cars now 20 years old and one of the most iconic characters from the NFS franchise, it needs it's own story from how it was liberated from Le Mans to present day, across different main characters and locations
The M3 GTR was an odd choice at first but fit in so well with MostWanted´s other Blacklist cars. The others cars arent the flashy Underground cars but more GT inspired and have alot more serious and darker tone. The many IRL MostWanted M3 Replicas show that it is achievable in the looks department while that famous V8 gearboy whine can only be had with the few real racecars that got built :) Sadly I think EA milked this car a bit too much instead of focusing on new unique Halo cover cars...
Considering that the BMW M3 GTR (ALMS 2001) is a formal racing car, it's a shame that it doesn't appears in ProStreet or Shift.
It's a formar car, but THAT M3 is illegal (probably stoled or buyed illegally)
@@incognitymo_us*stolen or bought (sorry)
It was already overused by Prostreet and it was too old and got replaced with the M3 GT2 in Shift
I am 90% convinced that the car is actually cursed (blessed?) with supernatural black magic or something, in the "NFS cinematic universe". The way it always appears wherever there is some new hot races and police chases going on and appears before the "protagonist", whoever that is; and how it almost always manages to appear fully repaired and ready to wreck havoc despite crashing on multiple occasions (e.g. at the start of Carbon and at the end of Heat)
Fucking hell. Excuse the emoji reply spam.
Glad I ain't the only one who thought that 😅
Nah, EA just wants milk even the last penny out of the Black Box fans
Remember, it's not yours to keep, it's just your turn.
4:30 a car is only totaled, if the owner says it is, the player spent god knows how long earning that car back, only for the game to go “yeah it’s broke now” BULL. He would’ve gotten it fixed. If they said that and made it unavailable until the mid to late game, that would’ve been cool.
honestly should have been what you get for beating darius instead of just unlocking everything that you didn't already,would have been neat,but then again carbon was RUSHED,VERY VERY RUSHED
in the end you can unlock the m3 gtr in carbon fully restored back.
The 2012 version was supposed to be actually real one. Those who know the beta version of the game know what I'm saying.
Yeah, RIP Most Wanted 2
It’s sad it got rushed, I would have wanted a carbon sequel(carbon is most wanted sequel)
Explaining need for speed most wanted just brings me back to my childhood man. 10/10 best need for speed. Loved it. The story, the gameplay, everything. I really hope they remaster it.
6:31 actually, in NFS ProStreet, you can't buy it, but in some rare occasions, in some events, a BMW M3 with this livery appears, but the car is silver with the white livery (at least in my gameplays), and is rare ASF, I only saw this in 4 occasions when I was playing the career mode (I made the game 100% and it was only in drift events for some reason). So, yes and no at the same time.
In Need For Speed Heat , you can get the real sound of the M3 GTR with a mod called UNITE that changes the transmision and engine sound from the original NFS Most Wanted and carbon , with that mod is the most realistic car from the original and from all NFS games on date.
Also just throw a Centerfugal Supercharger and it sounds like the MW05 version but way better
still won't sound the same bc in Heat the engine has 1000 RPM lower redline than the MW/C version, i guess they are taking the Strassenversion as a reference point bc other games that feature M3 GTR did the same as well
i wonder how the hell razor managed to get parts to repair this thing if it blew engine from oil starvation
The BMW M3 GTR with one of my favorite cars in need for speed. It was basically one of the fastest cars in the game, so yeah no wonder why I love it so much because I love that V8 engine sound when it does the mechanical wine
This car can also be recreated in NFS Shift & Shift 2. What you have to do is get an E46 M3, fully upgrade it, get the Works conversion kit, and then you just replicate the livery. There is a preset livery in Shift 1 tho that looks vaguely like it, but it’s still not close.
just came back here to confirm that in unbound, it is actually owned by razor and that the blacklist has been formed again
You don't realize how old the r35 is until you watch these older game's
My honest theory is that nfs heat is the origin of the m3 gtr and not rockport. The player character in 05 is not an established character (eventhough people like to say its Ryan Cooper...its not)...I believe the character in 05 and carbon is your character in heat. (Ik the cutscenes show a white guy as the player but still, the characters identity remains unknown)...So you leave carbon and begin your story in underground, then underground 2...then before you go to rockport, you go to palm city, where you get the car as a thank you for ridding the city of corrupt cops. THEN you go to rockport...Everything that happened in rockport with you and the car has made such a massive impact on street racing as a whole in need for speed that you gained a massive following of fans who went and built replicas (hence why 2012, 2015, undercover, and payback has a false m3 gtr to use)....Either way, the car was totaled off in carbon and was gone....then the protagonist may have moved to lakeshore, and had the car shipped over under the radar, for the protagonist in unbound to deliver.
Edit: Nfs Unbound has released volume 9 and now has the Canonical m3 gtr that we last saw 19 years ago. My theory still stands. Only that now, Razor has been searching for it, so he teams up with the new protagonist to search for it in the lockdown game mode
I also think that
My problem with that is...heat takes place in 2019 as far as i'm aware,and most wanted in 2005 assuming the year the game released is relevant to it taking place in that year.
@Damian-cilr2 the only moment that I'm aware of that most wanted becomes aware of its time was when Mia first mentions cross in a voice-mail, stating that he drives a "C6 Corvette" (which was brand new at the time)...but I mean, you can say that nowadays too since there are far newer models of corvettes now. Nfs heat never really acknowledges its time at all other than the Cross memorial bridge which is just a small Easter egg. (If the bridge lore is ever confirmed to be canonical then my entire theory is fucked. so I don't like to mention the bridge).
@@stancedstyfon1234 This is unlikely. If Heat takes place before MW 05, How come the newer cars like Aventador or the other 2020's cars would appear?
@@thatonegamerwhoislegit again...if you play through the games stories like I stated, they never specify what year they are in
I’m glad that with the release of Unbound we got the real M3 GTR back, it has the original engine sound, and the original body kit.
nfs heat has a better model and sound its the original😊
The original engine used in MW is actually from a TVR Cerbera lmao
The need for speed high stakes music is just the right tone for this video
16:59
(Foreshadowing of vol 9…)
From the bottom of my heart i believe and hope that "blacklist" from unbound is the Player from MW, back for his car once more
The ghost of gtr still hunts the road
They really did a gem with the unbound version just wish we could use it. I really hope theres a most wanted remake also. Theres talkings about a most wanted 2024, we will see in the future!
If you have PC version, you can download Unbound Remix from nexus, it will allow you to buy the car in single player
You actually missed an appearance. In prostreet at one of the organizations (I think it's G-effect) there is an AI M3 E46 that is done up to resemble the M3 GTR. There is one major change however, all the blue on the car is changed to a dark grey.
Eh, that sounds like it's just a replica, no big deal.
The NFS II music playing in the background is a cherry on top 🤪
the most recognized NFS car in the history of NFS
it's now in Unbound :D and so is Razor
Wild to think this car from a place called Rockport will be 25 years old next year and it's still an icon in the NFS community
I would love to see Craig Sorensen, the "Hero" protagonist in NFS Most Wanted and Carbon, in next Need for Speed game
Well now with unbound season 09, we can get it from lockdown and it has an in pound sticker from 2006 I believe?
I'm surprised this guy can tell it's not the real deal without any trouble with the fact that seeing how all of them looking the same without knowing which ones which is the troubling part for everyone else 😯
Even right now fam. I still want a car that looks like that. And i have high regards on the bmw brand because of NFSMW
All I know is, we need the MW and Carbon protagonist back.
After the shitshow that where the Ghost Games NFS, and Unbound being quite ok tbh, it's time to see that glorious bastard with his high pitched GTR in action
I know the M3 got wrecked in the beginning of Carbon, put there's no shot this was the end. Let the next game have the story of the MW protagonist trying to get his car back, or hell, bring Razor back who's also looking for this beauty, just do something at this point. I dont care if it would be nostalgia bait
yeah i would also love if the protagonist returns and we finaly can see his story with his car too an end. because that car was only his car not someone elses car.
Imagine next nfs being”nfs blacklisted” it will be about maybe ryan cooper, maybe someone other than him trying to hunt down and get his m3 e46 gtr. He has to go up against car “pirates”, that try to steal fancy cars for themselves with races. In the end, the “blacklist” guy. The ending will be huge ass word “blacklisted” on the screen and mc drives away in the dawn.
@@v1nus-136 The M3 never belonged to Ryan Cooper.
Dude, I just heard from around Reddit, that they'll be adding a sequel to the Need For Speed Movie, and this M3 GTR will be making an appearance!
Source?
@@still_guns R/Needforspeed.
@@sound_boytaro2133 A bit more specific than that. Link the actual thread.
@@still_guns Just search it up.
@@still_guns I have something else to do.
man, there are rumours of a nfs mw remastered, so your theory is right
I need to thank you because ive been looking the need for speed game shown at the start for so long since it was my childhood now i can play it again
Underground 2 and most wanted us peak nfs and I'm sad we may never get another like them. And razor calling in that delivery for the gtr took me off guard like, why him, why not main character from most wanted wanting his car back after being totaled
It's really dissapointing that after everything you've been through just to get that car back in MW, it gets totaled in Carbon and much worse, Razor manages to get his hands on your car... again
why and how was his car stolen again after it get totaled, he never would have sold it too anyone, he would repair it back after that crash, he earned enough money too do so. he has gone thru too much too get it back and then left it like that or sell it.
nowone ever would do that with an car you gone thru so much.
@@Super-Godzilla99 I don't think they explain it and the fact that unbound says razor kind of frustrated me like really!? Why couldnt you say something else like "idk his name. Just some guy." Something to noded toward us as the main character. After all it was OUR CAR. Still wouldn't mind a in-between game to see how the main character got the m3 gtr before going into Rockport. We go from supra in carbon to m3 gtr. And have the game in style of underground 2 meets most wanted
Not sure if anyone's said it, but the M3 GTR does technically make a cameo in Prostreet, in one of the challenge race days (I forget which) you get to drive it in a grip race, on some sort of really tricky course that I've personally never enjoyed. The car looked pretty decent too, but given that everyone's racing in that car it's definitely a replica
in unbound there is another dialogue after picking up the m3 gtr. Yaz says: "this guy just got out of jail and the first thing he did was order this car" (might not be the exact words but its very similar to what she said)
Really good video! I applaud you, sir.
Is no one going to mention how this car had a challenge series in NFS the run
That was an M3 E92. Not an E46.
I did not know that MW2005 and Carbon used a TVR exhaust note, that’s so cool
Can you imagine how lucky we 90s kids were , we got NFS Underground 2 , Most Wanted and Cabron in a row ....
You are forgetting.. the story starts from Underground...with a lot of money.. as Rog said Well look what the underground let loose...
Underground series have a different protagonist, it's not the same person in MW and Carbon
@@rabbitjack1990yep, UG1 and 2 are completely different storys from MW, carbon
@@rabbitjack1990 source ?
@@LT.KILLIAN-14031 go check the wiki page
imagine if the final hoorah of the need for speed franchise is an all out race with all the need for speed final bosses in their respective iconic cars
but razor should be in his mustang not in the m3 gtr, because the gtr is the players car not the bosses car.
razor was the only boss that stole the players car in the entire need for speed franshise, all the other bosses have their own car.
The reason the M3 GTR sounds odd in 05 Most Wanted is cause it has straight cut gears which makes it more throaty/ angry sounding
And we love it
And because it is not an M3 GTR sound lmao, EA didn't have access to one of those cars, so they used another one with a similar engine.
I would love to see Derek Hamilton return as Razor. The short fan made videos we got were so well done. We need a Razor Redemption story, him as the protagonist but not with the M3, but rather the Mustang...
there is no redemption for him he stole the players car and he was the only boss in the entire need for speed franshise that done it. there should be an need for speed game where you can play as the player form the 4 games where you can conclude his story, because his story has no end too this day, and the end we got he didn`t get his own car the m3 gtr back.
Underground, most wanted and carbon are all sequels. The player is from underground as they’re a quote in the introduction saying “look what the underground let loose”.
That isn't much evidence at all, and I don't count them as sequels.
The Nissan Skyline GTR R34 from Fast 2 is VERY iconic... to me thoes 2 cars are the most iconics... besides the Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger
Only the og’s know the bgm is from which need for speed game starting from 9:38 aah the good old days❤️🔥
It would be cool if on the next nfs ryan cooper showed up in the original m3 gtr with the iconic m3 gtr sound confirming the theory of ryan cooper being the protagonist of underground, most wanted and carbon too
I really hope that doesn't happen. There's no evidence that he is the protagonist of UG through Carbon.
@@still_guns I mean there are some dialogues that make references but nothing that confirms it, its just a cool theory. Really hope either way that they bring the original m3 gtr with the iconic sound and at least some decent performance unlike heat and unbound
just so it's said, while the m3 gtr racecars are most famous for having a v8, they did race them in straight 6 configurations as well, most notably after porsche got the homoligation rules changed to make the v8 too expensive for bmw to justify.
There are also several GTR chassies that has raced with s62 m5 based motors, but those did not race in ALMS
What about nfs most wanted 510 on psp? It counts as a major title since it has a slightly different name
Doesn't count
Considering it will be 20 years next year, i expect either a remaster or a sequel.
I just got nfs unbound, I went to my local game store with my dad, bought the game because I thought it looked cool and I’ve heard good things about nfs unbound. The game is still in its case and sitting upstairs on my desk. I’m gonna play it for the first time in a few hours, I hope it’s good.
Play Most Wanted 2005 first
Actually if you look at the most wanted cover of the game, the gtr has the bmw rims with a silver and shiny blue color to it.
I mean, You werent Wrong. Almost 2 years later And The custom m4 Has Appeared in Volume 9. Should Update this :P For the 2 version of the m3 That now Exist in Unbound
Need for speed MW 2012 is Burnout with real cars. It was Criterion’s first NFS and they were fresh out of their Burnout Run.
That would be Hot Pursuit 2010
In NFS Pro Street, there are some appearance of an e46 AI with the livery, but it's gray / white coloured, not blue like the OG. It's very rare appearance, in my few playtrough I only see it 2 times at drift events.
something that i don't understand is why this car reach 8.500 rpm before red line (Most Wanted) and in the recent games it can reach just 7.500 rpm? Is not the same engine? They change it? if so, why?
it is not the same engine, there are different engines in it.
The car so iconic even the EA makes replicas
BMW have even put the livery onto an actual race driven M3 GTR for a while.
@@still_guns and that car from BMW is the real deal, the real life car from most wanted. you can`t get it more acurate then that. everything else is a replica. even balck box took this car as the hero car in most wanted, they just replaced the livery with there own creation thats all. and now BMW replaced their own livery with the most wanted livery more meta that is just not possible.
The M3 GTR in NFS HEAT is as legendary as in UNBOUND.
The M3 GTR is the most iconic car in racing games, the only car as iconic is the 2Fast 2 Furious GTR
This was very thoughtfully flushed out, thank you
The word you were looking for is 'fleshed'.
What I think happened was the car was truly totaled but this was around the time rebuilding techniques started to drastically evolve to rebuilding a totaled car started to take shape . So likely a spare e46 was used to help rebuild the GTR you can tell by the trunk that it has in both need for speed, heat and unbound, but I think the protagonist for he sold the car because of how hot the car was from its days in Rockport and they didn't want to take any chances . But to make an E46 look like a GTR is not that difficult at all If you know what you're doing, we'll get the other e46s to look like the GTR in most wanted on Instagram and social media and you'll see what I'm talking about
Also, we don't know if it's razor or the protagonist from most wanted in carbon. Probably at that point the protagonists likely moved on from the car. Didn't care that much about it. No more, especially after the events of carbon
why should the protagonist sell that car, he gone thru so much too get it back, nownone would belive he sold it too anyone no matter how much they want it.
nowone would abandon and sell a car you have so much history with.
Guys i know it’s non cannon but the M3 GTR is in grid legends.
Like imagine the look of sgt cross when he sees the most wanted GTR racing in Grid championship lmao
The most iconic car both in need for speed and the history of actuall motorsports. It was racing for endurance series.
Need for Speed, yes. All of motorsport... no.
I wanna do my best to contribute to this theory
As mentioned from a comment i saw these cars can be mass produced and the manufacturer has no budget and is unlimited and could be multiple
so.
My theory:
After the car was "totaled" in carbon during the chase in carbon canyon someone found the m3 gtr and knowing its history found replacement parts and eventually restored it fully
after the restoration mercer heard that it was restored and wanted to get his hands on the bmw m3 gtr and eventually got his hands on it during the scheme. and once it was found out ran but failed to escape.
after the player gets its hands on the m3 gtr they sell it to some person and going to unbound. when hearing about the m3 gtr and asked to get it from "the blacklist" finds it and manages to steal the car and deliver it
i speculate "the blacklist" to be razor for razor being released by now and wanting it back just like in speed most wanted 2005
why should the protagonist left his own car there, when he gone thru so much too get it back. it is his car and nowone elses car.
I’m rocking a M6 Sprint with the Most Wanted livery on GT Sport.
Amazing car of an amazing game.
And turns out the next game is called Most Wanted
my head canon for the m3 thats in 2015 is that the player or maybe amy were a fan or heard the legend of the m3 and tried to replicate it of course unsuccesfully which might explain that random decals
I really despise this franchise and the fanbase alone because of the amount of toxicity and this m3 gtr being in these games that ea will never let go of. Guys, go to college instead of going online arguing with people about how right you are and being passive aggressive. Socialize with a real human, and stop being a low self esteem bully.
Actually the in the NFS MW there is a race in which it says that the driver comes from Underground not carbon
it actually starts from Carbon, and its obvious because of 1 Canon cutscene and the appearance of Darius after the M3 was Totaled by *Croc*
Basically, They already knew each other since.
And that "someone" Mentioning a Person in the underground is on the loose is none other than the Homie of the player, Rog, he probably heard the news about the previous city before Player came to Rockport
I think you can replicate the livery in ProStreet, but I now don't remember if the exhaust cutout is the same as Undercover.
I know im late to the party but can we really believe that in NFS Heat we are just...gifted a highly notorious car after it's been wrecked again and possibly involved in a possibility blue on blue..."incident". I find that very hard to believe. I think it's more possible it was taken to a police impound, locked up till bought and restored where we... somehow steal it in Unbound. There's also the EA rewards M3 GTR in online but I don't think that should be included. Replica maybe? But not included.
I think NFS 2015 did the same sort of thing with the Mustang Hoonicorn as it’s not completely accurate either. It has a different set of rims, it has chrome trim pieces where it shouldn’t, and more
Imagine the next NFS is MW II and it has Razor as the protagonist and the MW-Carbon player character is the villain or something... Maybe I'm thinking too far into the future but it's just an idea after all.
Thats an interesting idea. Whats makes you think Razor and the player are gonna swap rolls?
I beat the m3 with razor mustang
MW-Carbon character got happy ending at the end of carbon, and might be moved on from M3 GTR, he have palmont city under his control and an Audi concept car from darius lol, Razor as protoganist trying to get the car back while getting bounty hunted by cross might be more interesting, since both character already referenced in the last need for speed game
Why would it be that the MW-C Protagonist be the villain? We don't know the players intentions. Razor is more likely to be the villain due to his vengeance against the player.
Imagine mw2 where we have to get to the top of national blacklist lmao
Yo I’m a little bit late but is it me or is the M3 gtr that appears in the garage scene, on the rear bumper it looks like it was newly totalled. It could be the dents and scratches from nfs carbon or just scratches from a police car ramming them
Well with the release of the vol.9 for unbound how do you feel?
@@richardpalmer2957 Since none of the stuff ever gets put into single player, none of it counts.
In my opinion I think that the blacklist is our player character from NFS heat as once we complete the game we get the m3 gtr
than the player from heat must be the protagonist from underground 1 - 2, most wanted and carbon because the m3 gtr is his car not someone elses car and he never would sell it or abandon it.
I just want a reunion for The MW and the M3
Putting every m3 gtr in NFS series is like putting marvel actors in every action movie
Ahh, that NFS 2 and 3 music.
I think Vol 9 update invalidates Heat and Unbound Story GTR appearances as the real deal. In Vol 9 where THE actual Razor is present in Lockdown, you can find the GTR with a Palmont impound sticker on the window and with an abandoned look. That means that the real GTR apepared only in MW05, Carbon and Unbound (online), all the others being replicas or tributes.
I hardly count the online only lockdown mode as the definitive version, especially as Online has no story to it.
bro missed the hood/bonnet inaccuracy in Ghost NFS's + Unbound
-that is aftermarket made to resemble GTR vents, but not exact sized
whats the name of the trance track playing from 06:00 - 10:00 ishh??
NFS 2 Main Menu music
Even Roblox on the playstation has a picture when you hover over the game icon and in the bottom right you can see the same NFS BMW all blurred out. And my kids will never notice this.
If we look at my theory
People of the cities recreated a replica of BMW m3 GTR because we"player" got famous in it
Unless the car was completely restored for heat and unbound EVERY SINGLE CAR we see is a replica because the car was totaled in the beginning of Carbon which is the CANON sequel to MW05
yeah until we get an answer what the player did with his totaled car we have no story further with the m3 gtr from most wanted and the start of carbon. i just can`t believe the player won all this money in carbon and didn`t restore his own car back. it was his car and he gone too so much too get it back nowone would believe he abandon that car so easily just because the car is totaled.
@ exactly
Bring back the baddest racers and make a deck of cars (worst than the blacklist)
Great explain video! 😀
good video. BMW M3 GTR. good. Car. Need for speed most wanted 2005