Here's that update I was talking about. It doesn't go over anything already in this video, it's solely about the M3 GTR's presence in Lakeshore. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qXdjaG-ro6lqs4U.html

I don’t care what other say, this car is the face of Need for Speed.

When someone says 'razors m3' i absolute lose it.

the whole scrapyard scenario makes sense. the car ends up in the hands of another racer during a race one night,Shaw illegally impounds the car. the most wanted protagonist is already in Palm City and hears of this police crew while Lucas is on the phone with someone,who? we have no idea.

my theory goes as follows: after being "totaled" it was fixed and sold instantly. but without all the extra power the MW player or Razor put in it. the new owner sold the car after a few years for a newer car. The newest owner kept the car and continued to race until he or she arrived in palm city and it was crashed again. then was taken and repaired by the police (we see the m3 gtr on a truck in the infiltration of the warehouse cutscene in heat) Then Mercer tries to escape with the m3 gtr. he is caught and the League fixes the damage done to the car before giving it to the player. The player then upgrades the car with ultimate+ parts giving the M3 GTR back her full power. and i have this personal headcannon that the MW player comes to Plam city and meets the Heat player when he notices the M3 GTR in the garage. the mw player is shocked to see that his car is actually not in a scrap heap and is upset seeing his car that he thought he lost for good is alive and well after being gone for 13 years. the car seems to attract the mw player who lightly caresses the car's body remembering everything that had happened with her. the mw player hugs the M3 and cries his eyes out. While the heat player, Ana and Lucas all look at him with a look of confusion on their faces. the mw player offers to buy the m3 from the heat player. the heat player doesnt want to lose the car the League gave them but after seeing the MW player's actions and the way he gently touched the car lovingly but also as if it was fragile. the heat player realizes that the car that was given to them by the League was the property of man in front of them. the heat player asks if the mw player would like to ride in it. which was gladly accepted. the heat player drives the m3 perfectly and then switches seats with the mw player who ends up driving the m3 even better. the heat player desides that the car should stay with the one who loves her the most. that being the mw player. unknown to the heat player the mw player had bought a similar m3 gtr and had it customized to look exactly like his but had a note inside saying. "Thank you for giving me my car back. I know you liked her so this is my gift to you. a 1 to 1 remake of her. Maybe one of these days we can race together but for now i think im just going to enjoy diving my m3 again." and then there's my idea for the next game which continues off the headcannon but everyone from previous installments are in it. The House now with many of the old bosses is back this time they are coming for everyone. its up to you to beat them again but you now have access to the cars from all across nfs but as a new player. the characters still return but their cars are not unlocked as playable until completing the story with the M3 GTR being one of the best cars in the game. the final boss would be the Collector and it would take a while to get to that point via building up your rep and the trust of other crews. all of the things you do can aid or harm you in the last battle. the bad ending sees you losing the collector and him getting away causing you to lose the unlockable rewards but gain over 50 million bank this can only be done if you didnt get help to ward off the police presence and end up getting wrecked or purposefully letting him get away. the good ending sees all of the nfs casts enjoying a party where in 1 final cutscene the group takes a picture with all of the protagonists faces being covered. the image gets smaller and shows up in a frame above a fireplace and in the background you hear the words "Did you really think that Id stop chasing you" Before tires screech and the screen cuts instantly to black and the credits roll. edit: but then again this is just my thoughts so it really doesnt matter.

So there's another theory going around that Frank Mercer is the player from MW2005 and Carbon. Let me remind you that this is patently impossible. You have to remember that the MW2005 player was the MOST WANTED street racer in the ENTIRE USA. A highly notorious criminal. I know the entry requirements for American police is a joke, but to the point that they'd allow a criminal into the force *without* the pulling of strings by corrupt officials? No. Just, no. Mercer is not the player and the player is not Mercer. End of Story.

I guess ghost will never tell us cause ghosts gone 😭😭😭

Interesting theories. I feel like EA will just be like "Oh we just added it as a blast from the past, no connections to Most Wanted nor Carbon" But yeah all those theories are logical

The NFS M3 GTR was built, not bought or stolen. It has many tell tale signs. No reflector over the exhaust, a stock BMW M3 dashboard, and a different rear window. Somehow the player was in contact with a person who supplied them with M3 GTR parts.

Well Darius obviously didn't use the M3 GTR. If you watch the final cutscene of Nfs Carbon you see that he left the city in a Jaguar XKR

The car has made an appearance in NFS Unbound, and there's a juicy reference. I'll probably get Unbound when it goes on sale, at which point I can update this video a little bit. EDIT: I have Unbound now, new video coming soon.

Still_guns someone copied your entire video and played it on their channel it’s called Rejwan Ahmed they littlerly recorded this with your voice and said it’s his story of need for speed

Ive always wondered what happened to the most iconic car of the NFS franchise and although those are really good scenarios(speculations) we might probably never know how it got to Palm City for sure.

It’s in the werehouse on the back of a towtruck in heat and maybe Mercer’s connection managed to snag it from Palmont City and they managed to repair it in that werehouse before getting sold overseas.

4:16 It’s also possible that the M3 could have been Darius’s, since it shares a similar color scheme to the supra. The supra was discarded at the venue for Prostreet, as the announcer states in an easter egg that there’s a blue car with the keys left in it, license plate spelling “NFS CARBN”. It’s also possible that this was the discarded supra.

You can see it in a cutscene on a tow truck

The NFS games leave me more clueless, than books/movies with cliff-hangers

I love your dramatic fitting comentary. Gives the M3 gtr it's full respect and makes it the first time every realy mysterious

I've always wondered how the BMW ended up in Palm City. Now, I finally got the answers.

Logic: M3 GTR can go through a massive traffic in Most wanted but get bonked by 1truck

Here’s my theory BMW M3 GTR driver is a former racecar racer, he got fired so he steals the BMW and repainted it with blue stripes.

Omg the M3 gtr gets as mystical as devil z a fck yea I am so down for it

My main man *player* (nfs mw) made it in the league!

These are exactly all my headcanons, wow! Great video :)

If we count No Limits canon to the story Maybe the No Limits player lost the car or sold the car in Palm City, either a pinkslip race, stolen, impounded by Mercer, or he sold it Because, there is a special event in the game where you get to drive the car, and there is a possibility that the M3 GTR being in Palm City, is the No Limits player's cause

My theory: Maybe when those giant pipes hit the car in nfs carbon, only the body of the car was damaged, but the engine and other parts are still working. so Darius repaired the car, and he sold it, and then told the player that his car is totaled.

My theory: After the accident at Carbon, the player gave the car to Kim (our assistant at no limits), and Kim fixed the car. After losing to No limits player Marcus King, Kim saw our vengeance and gave us the car, but he came to Razor Blackridge around the time to get the BMW m3 gtr but failed and was arrested. My guess is difficult for the next, but it probably happened like this. While the Player was competing in a race, Mr. Mercer came and confiscated the car. When considering selling the vehicle illegally he failed and tried to escape with the bmw m3 gtr but he was caught and our car switched to the heat player.

This iconic car is like the elder wand of the need for speed franchize

This is exactly like Brian O’Conners’ Skyline GTR R34 iconic

my theory about the m3 involves no limits since the m3 was in that with its own story basically in no limits the m3 was left im kim's yard(kim is basically the side character who your player character works for) with the message of if the m3 can get to the top of the blacklist for blackridge in one week (where no limits takes place) that the m3 is hers, is it isn't at the top it gets took back and kim decides to pass the challenge onto the no limits player character who manages to get it to the top and win the m3, which involves beating razor who confirms it is the same m3 from mw. this win gets the blacklist in blackridge removed to stop competition for highest rank on it. basically my theory is hat the no limits player heads to palm city for the speedhunters showdown and arrives either a similar time or before the player by a few months, manages to get into the league through the status of the m3 and the high speed task force "impound" the m3 and the player is either arrested for street racing, leaves town or gets a new car and continues on competing and then the heat events occur where the cars are recovered and the league gifts you the m3 to thank you for returning the cars

Can you imagine? Writing the script and editing all the scenes in one Historic video... Well Done!

One thing worth noting is the chop shop scene when you discover Mercers operation. You clearly see the m3 gtr in a wrecked state on the back of a truck. So it's most likely been totalled this whole time, located by mercer because it's such a rare car and he's made a business of selling cars like that. He's had it reconditioned at the chop shop and ready to be sent somewhere to a collector.

Loved the vid, keep it up 👍😎

I thank the police of palm city pickup the BMW M3 GTR from scrap yard and was rebuilding in the factory because we saw the BMW it was loaded on the truck where all Racer's car manufacturing i think the BMW m3 gtr wasn't use for 15 years and then mercer founded and decide to build it so he could sell it

Personally I like the idea that the M3 was meticulously repaired and restored. The M3 E46 is much loved so I doubt smaller spares would've been too hard to find. Plus, it WAS gone 13 years... Plenty of time to find everything needed to bring the legend back.

Here are my theories/Speculations 1. The Player got the car fixed but got it stolen 2. The player gives the car away, either he sold it or have that chosen driver proves his skills just like in No Limits, maybe, the guy that we play as, in No Limits, got into Palm City and lost the car, or someone just stole the car in Blackridge and have it imported to Palm City Maybe this is what happened to the car No Limits player lost the car or sold the car to Mercer That's if we count No Limits as canon to the Most Wanted, Carbon and Heat story Also, there is no way the player bought the car, since it's none production car, meaning it's not for sale, it's just a prototype race car, which could mean he had stolen it

Why does this video not have ar least 100kviews?

The Player left Palmont City in 2002 to race in Olympic City in 2003, Was injured by Caleb, six months later arrived in Bayview in 2004,defeated Caleb, Then bought the BMW M3 GTR with the money he saved up from all his races,then upgraded the car, then went to Rockport where Razor messed with it then used it to become #1 on the Blacklist in which the Player with Mia's help, got his car back, escaped Rockport, then returned to Palmont City, the rest is history.

Does someone notice one thing when Anna and the player went to the factory where all hyper car were rebuilding we saw the BMW M3 gtr loaded on the truck but someone notice what was the police man saying. I tell you what he was saying ''you should've seen his face last night when I loaded on the truck. I think he was going to cry''

Hold on a second, because i think you missed something. The M3 GTR also appeared in the middle of campaign in NFS Heat where we were doing a research. Also in that mission Ana realized that her car was... probably sold and there we can see a M3 GTR blurred at the background, so sb used to drive it. Am I right?

The m3 gtr really is the best car in nfs history

i think that Mercer already knew about the car and sent some men to Palmont to go find it in so that he could have something he knew he definitely would need eventually: a getaway car. Mercer had no intention of selling the GTR, after all it's THE M3, and because it was that certain M3 he knew just how powerful it was.

I think that after the carbon story the M3 was sitting in the scrapyard and so the MW player bought it back and slowly rebuilt the car, staying in palmont city. But he wants a change of scenery and goes to Palm city where he gets into a chase and gets busted since he isn't what he used to be. He loses the car and Mercer knowing how valuable the car is gets it to the docks to export it. Then gets caught and the car ends up back in a scrap yard as it gets totaled again this time by Heat player.

That car is just as Legendary as The AE86, Spirit RX7, FC, other Initial D rides and media legends.

The gear whine sounded different in heat is my pet peeve

NFS World background music, love it!

It was in NFS:Payback Nice Vid btw

I agree with the third theory, but the point is splitted like puzzles around. The legendary racer when left palmont city was with his Toyota Supra, and then comes back with M3 GTR. He would have come to search for the broken car to be repaired, but he already has Audi Le Mans Quattro. And when Darius left, he had a car of his own that goes as fast as it could, so he probably left the city. While the car was just left there untouched. If you see the cutsene carefully during the cross chase, you will see that the car did totaalled, but hardly damaged, he did save himself and the car by taking a massive drift and then applied a hard break in front of cross with no route to escape. He had no other option then to run because he thinks that no use of the car then himself. And there is a cutscene where darius gives an entry and helps the legendary racer, but when Nikki took him to choose one of a car to use, then BMW M3 GTR was no longer seen or heard and the messaged told was that it was totalled. What was the condition of the car no one knows, it was left to be taken over by any other racer as scrap till it was finally sold for a very high price. Audi Le Mans Quattro has a very good speed, plus he already conquered back the reputation and the lost money, so he only taught about the new car owned, reputation and his girlfriend who he had to leave and go.

I thought the M3 came from Bayview sometime after the Underground 2 story and before the Most Wanted story and player moved to Rockport. Rog said in the beginning of the game "well look what the underground let loose. "Lets see how good you do in the daylight"

I loved this video really nice story telling there is something i always wonderd i Never had an awsner to it nobody evertalked about it on youtube etc when most wanted came out in the intro we see a yellowish corvette undercover cop car there is so many mysterie about the car why was it in the trailer why did we see it why wasnt it in the game it mindfucks me everyday could you make a video about it and solve my mysterie .thx for the great content .sorry for my bad english

When you have E46 on your side everything becomes clear

In NFS heat cutscene where the player and Ana find out the warehouse and infiltrates it, you can also see it with rusty paint and completely broken bodywork with faint trace of Piantjob of this icon on the ramp truck.

If I remember correctly If you listen to the announcer in Pro Street he says there's a blue car parked outside that's going to get towed away and the license plate says NFS CARBON. So Ryan Cooper abandoned the Supra and won prize money after Pro Street then bought/built the BMW then headed to Rockport.

It even has the old style hud

Race cars have special metal cage inside so for sure it wasn't totaled completely, ruff was for sure crashed, dpoiler, trank etc but possibly to restore even back then

The last theory makes a lot of sense.

Maybe Frank Mercer found it, and when he saw he decided to start stealing cars and selling them but he kept the M3 as a reminder of how this is all started

i think what would be a fitting end to m3GTR story would be if in the end credit they showed player masked getting the car back and for a final race to end the m3 story

damn NFSMW made me remember when im trying so hard to win the blacklist when i was still a kid in pre-school

i like to think the MW/Carbon player found the car after the events of Carbon and decided to take on the task of restoring it. of couse the origonal P60B40 that was in it couldn't have been fixed for replaced concidering it was a race engine only and you can't just buy parts for it or get a new long block so he got a M62/S62 V8 and modified it to be as close as possible(this explaines the red line and performance differeance between heat and MW/Carbon). After leaving Palmont city he traveled the country trying to find the same level of street racing he was used to in Palmont and Rock port and ended up in Palm city 18 years later when the Police had stopped activly looking for him. he would be eventually caught in a similer way to anna and arrested and thrown in jail for all his past chrims and the car "impounded" by the police untill Mercer would take the car and try and ecape in it thinking the car was what it was back in 2005 just to fins out it isn't as fast as it once was the hard way.

I wish the creators of NFS would bring the story of Razor back to Nfs

What if the Collector from Payback is behind it

In Unbound, the M3 shows up again. And according to Yaz, the story is that some guy got out of prison, and the first thing he wanted was that car. No names were dropped, but the protag of Unbound says something like "I feel we're on the razor's edge by doing all these deliveries."

I say after the car was so called totaled in carbon it was then when mercer impounded it and cept it since untill know in heat when he was on heat level and tried escaping with the m3 GTR but was taken out by another street racer But im glad the car is back cuase it was the car that made need for speed famous and its still my all time fav car ever !

thank you for putting NFS most wanted 2012 menu music 10 minutes in

this just popped out of my recommendations.. i must say, i think EA really did this car dirty. we worked hard to get this car in MW. We had it in the finale which is when it's pretty much useless (unless if a player plans to complete every challenges and races). and in carbon we only had it for a few minutes, and we can't get it in career at all. they should've just made it available after beating the first 3 bosses, and say that the player had enough money to get it fixed or something. it would be a perfect way to end the duology; the previous game's boss car vs the current game's boss

In one of the cutscenes when you discover the garage full of cars the m3 can be seen above of a truck full of dust dirt and crashed

Nfs mostly got famous by this legendary m3 gtr. The car made the story so much interesting in 2005 game. Even tho there are a lot of iconic cars in nfs this is the legend of all

Hoping ea make another nfs on the history of m3 gtr about what happened to it after carbon and another nfs game that the most wanted came back to street to get his car back after 13 years!

Probably something like the player restored the GTR , using a E46 regular chassi but installing every part from the GTR , because if you see in the boot of the new GTR, it has the M3 logo that the original didnt have , in my thinking , then the player grabed the car and travel to Palm city and was busted

Cool video. One thing I would have liked to see you talk more about is the fake M3 GTR's. Like how Undercover has an E46. MW 2012 has one, I forget if it's an E46 or a GTR. NFS 2015 has one. Payback has one. But you said each of the non-E46's had something off. Which things? Also, if the car was restored from being totaled, it is possible it had different rims for a time until the real rims were found to be put back on.

I have heard that player made a way longer way: Nit from carbon to most wanted But: Nfs Carbon Nfs Underground Nfs Underground 2 Nfs Most Wanted (2005) Nfs Carbon ...

Mercer is the mostwanted he repaired it they didnt show his face because if we see him we coult now that MERCER İS MOST WANTED. (And in carbon we see his eyes that same as mercer

This car has became so iconic

I would honestly love for this car to go back to its original owner. The player in NFSMW and Carbon. The man who single-handedly brought down the entire Blacklist to get his car back and become the Most Wanted street racer in all of United States.

MW2012 is the answer. The M3 GTR seemingly must have been restored, and resprayed, then exported to palm city, resprayed again, and then impounded by the police years later. And then there's the exporting to another area, and there's only one area in the same universe with no laws. Paradise City.

My first nfs game was either hot pursuit 2 or underground 1.

I’m thinking it could be a mix of all three theories in the video. Darius lied to the most wanted that the m3 was a complete wreck The most wanted believed Darius and got the salvage value money for the m3 The m3 was crushed but it was still able to work Darius had someone fix the car (as much as it was able to be fixed)as a backup in case he lost his Leman’s Quattro When he was beaten by the most wanted he had someone appraise the car and got a value that was able to help him recover financially Darius told the person that appraised the car to not let the most wanted find out it was repaired and to sell it on the black market Over time the m3 was able to be fixed little by little until it was repaired completely When the m3 was repaired, it landed in the hands of Frank Mercer as he was making arrangements to have many cars sold overseas That’s my thoughts on what might’ve happened but I could be wrong on a few things

after reading the most watnted book, there is a line that Cross restore this beauti, cuz i we all remember Cross helped us during Carbon. So who know's mayby Cross was the guy who really restore the M3.

Very good video, the only problem i have about it is that you had repeated yourself by telling us over and over again that is has been 13 years since it was last seen. Other than that, great video! You earn a sub.

That GTR is any 90’s kids dream car

i think that in carbon when cross got a hold of player darius paid his bounty and of course darius was rich to do so but after he took the m3 gtr and sold it to get the money back that he used to pay the bounty

In one of deleted scenes in nfs carbon cross actually reverses on the players m3 gtr completely totaling it

It was given to you as a gift in Need for Speed No Limits by the driver in NFS MW/Carbon.

the nfs world garage music always puts me in my feelings bruh

This car was so iconic need for speed history!

This is why m3 gtr is my favorite car. and i love him so much! and his engine is really ironic!

Cops: YES ! THE M3 IS NO MORE! M3 GTR: *Hold my gas canister*

So i think there were also crews in rockport city but the player has defeated all the crews and the blacklist has the top racers in the city so the player is working his way up to the blacklist

Im suprised no one noticed this. After the event of Carbon the M3 GTR has lost something. And Its the *Gear whining sound* just listen to it in heat the Gear whining sound were small. If you remember in MW And Carbon the gear whining sound almost dominated 70% of the car sound while heat its only 20% which mean they do something on the transmission when fixing this car.

what are your thoughts on the GTR appearing in nfs unbound by someone getting out of jail can u make another video to explain more and continue the idea of this video ?

How come it was in pay back from the truck it came out I am sure it links some how

In NFS MW 2005 the player is the most wanted in the USA so if Darius made his way to Palm City with the repaired M3 after being beaten and without reputation it makes sense that maybe after some races the car was identified by the police of Palm City and got caught but they didn't report it so Mercer just decided to keep it as a personal collection and he noticed that he could do that over again with other racers without consequences, but how at the end of NFS Heat we just keep the M3 for ourselves? We just took it like nothing else? A little gift from Torres maybe? So many questions for the most wanted/iconic car ever.

I’m just hoping criterion explains why the Frick it re-emerged

This is History lesson for me

My theory is that cross did his research or had knowledge of the car and saw an opportunity to impound the car someone from the impound lot recognized the car and bailed it out got it repaired resprayed and somehow got to palm city the car was then "impounded" because palm city's police force recognized the car the glory and knew selling it to the highest bidder will be their biggest pay check yet

Canonically the player from Carbon at the very least went to Bayview and the events of underground 2 happened before he reach Rockport. This is confirmed from a few different interactions with Rog

I think it’s really sad how someone originally built this car with love and passion and it’s now passed so many hands down the years, should of stayed with the maker

It’s implausible that Darius could use the M3 GTR without the Most Wanted finding out.

In one of the nfs heat scene looking for Anna's car the m3 is totaled at the back on a lowbed tow truck so the car was damaged