Rendition Design

Old BMWs.
Better to live with.

Heavy steering. The bumps through the seat. A straight-six pulling harder as the revs climb, your hand ready for the next shift. You hear the road, feel the speed, and work with the car. Very little gets filtered out. That raw, analogue connection is why we keep coming back. We bring the practicality into the present, so these cars fit into everyday life and you reach for their keys more often.

Find parts for your BMW

Dakar Yellow BMW E36 M3 in the workshop — From our own garage · Dakar Yellow E36 M3

Living with an older BMW

The small things add up.

BMW E36 cockpit with cup holder and phone mount in everyday use. — From our own garage · E36 cockpit

The car still makes you take the long way home. Then you close the door and the trim moves. A pillar cover won't stay in place. You reach for your coffee and remember there still isn't a good place to put it. Individually, these are small problems. Living with them every time you drive is what wears you down.

A broken mounting tab can turn into a search for an entire trim panel. A used replacement can leave you dealing with the same ageing plastic. Meanwhile, a phone holder or charger that works in a newer car can feel awkward in a cabin designed decades ago.

Keeping the original character matters to us as much as fixing the problem. The lines of the dash, the texture of the trim, the space around the gear lever: you notice when something doesn't belong. Our approach is OEM+. We aim to follow the cabin's shapes and proportions, use existing mounting points where practical, and keep additions out of the way. A useful upgrade should feel at home in your BMW.

How Rendition began

It started with an E36.

BMW E46 M3 beside the coast — From our own garage · E46 M3

Before there was Rendition, there were custom motorcycles. Then a friend turned up in his father's Dakar Yellow E36 M3. That led to the first BMW of our own: an automatic E36 325, and the start of a much longer obsession.

Later, during industrial design studies at the University of Technology Sydney, that E36 became a running project. Sketching, CAD, 3D printing and learning how things are made became ways to work through problems on the car. School assignments turned into usable parts. Those parts became the beginnings of Rendition.

The work continued back in Taiwan. More E-chassis cars followed, with the E36 M3 Evo and E46 M3 still among our favourites. The questions stayed much the same: what do we love about this car, what gets frustrating when we use it every day, and how can we make it more useful while keeping its character?

The way we work

We live with these cars.

Every model we develop parts for is one we've owned or spent a long time driving. That time matters. Some problems only show up after months behind the wheel: where your hand naturally reaches, what gets in the way when you shift, which trim keeps working loose, or why a useful accessory still feels wrong in the cabin.

Those experiences decide what we make, how it works, where it sits and what it should look like. We know how much these details matter because we live with them too. The goal is a car you can use more often, with the feel and character you fell for still there.