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  Essential History To many, it may seem like the BMW 3 Series has always been with us. It nearly has, getting its start in 1975 as a two-door coupe that replaced the ageing BMW 2002, itself a small, fun-to-drive coupe that both saved the BMW brand and served to bring BMW into the mainstream U.S. market. This first 3 Series was internally coded the E21 and featured designer Paul Bracq's crisp, clean "shark nose" styling. Several styling traits from this series left imprints on future 3 Series models , such as the double kidney grille, a "Hoffmeister Kink" at the base of the C-pillar, twin headlights, and a centre control stack that was angled at the driver.   The second-generation 3 Series (E30) landed in Europe in 1982, and by the end of 1983, the 318i had landed on American shores as a 1984 model, fitted with a 1.8-litre four-cylinder engine with a higher compression ratio and with new Bosch electronic fuel injection. A 2.5-litre, inline six-cylinder variant d