Welcome back to another instalment of Cardle of the Day, the series where we play through the daily puzzle at Cardle and then spend a few hundred words celebrating over whatever car was hiding behind those crops. Each day, Cardle presents five progressively less cropped photographs of the same car. I wasn’t 100% right, but the game took my guess: BMW M3. The benchmarkThe BMW M3 has been making enthusiasts argue since 1986, when the original E30 generation car arrived as a homologation special built to compete in touring car racing. It was a racing car with number plates, and the road car carried that power convincingly.