We’ve just got behind the wheel of the new BMW M3 for the first time and, thankfully, it has proved to be as good as we’d hope it would be.

But despite its glowing reviews, the M3 still has all manner of rivals to contend with. Here, we take a look at some of the key competitors that this latest performance BMW has to fight it out with.

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