I still regret selling my 318iS! Maybe it's because there are so few about on our roads, but they do command a road presence. It's just a shame the E36 M3 didn't stand out form the non-M models. I read an article last year about a possible plan to ban petrol cars across a number of cities in Germany and that it would be the death of the E36 & E46 models. Hopefully this doesn't happen.
Edit: it wasn't a Yahoo article but this is what cropped up now:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1990s...162200107.html