BMW M3 Apparel

An E30 on a shirt is an age-specific signal. Anyone over about forty will spot it across a car park and know exactly what it is; anyone under thirty will read it as a blue car.

That is not a complaint — half the appeal of this particular car is that it belongs to a specific period rather than to the general run of poster cars, and the people who recognise it recognise it properly.

It is also the plainest drawing here, which on clothing is an advantage. There is nothing to blur, nothing that needs to be printed large to make sense.

BMW M3 T-shirts

The active t-shirt is worth knowing about on this car. Quick-dry, breathable and with a bit of stretch, it is the one built for the gym or a hot day rather than for standing about, and the flat E30 print holds its shape on a stretchy fabric where a finer drawing would distort.

BMW M3 Hoodies And Sweatshirts

Pullover and zip-through styles, with the print carried across both. Pale blue needs a dark garment behind it more than any other car in this range, so black or navy rather than heather grey.

BMW M3 Tank Tops

The most exposed the E30 print gets, on the least fabric to hold it. That makes the garment colour matter more here than anywhere else on the page — there is simply less of it to work against. Men's and women's cuts, the women's a racerback.

BMW M3 Long Sleeve T-shirts

Sleeves change the proportions of a chest print more than people expect. There is more garment around it, so the car sits smaller in the field — which suits a drawing as plain as the E30 rather better than it would a busy one.