Although designed primarily to take on BMW's rivals on the race track, amongst them Mercedes - Benz's rally car turned DTM
racer, the Cosworth - powered 190E 2.3 - 16, the public would get to experience the M3 too, as the Group A
rules of the time specified that 5000
road - legal examples of the car would have to be built in its first 12 months for it to be homologated for competition use.