So watched a vid on YouTube about the need for speed most wanted bmw n it was basically what was cannon in the series so according to the guy i watched he says that Most Wanted (2005) and Carbon are both cannon NW takes place round about 2004ish then the beginning of carbon takes place one year later but at the beginning of the game your bmw is "totalled" (broken beyond repair) n that's the end of its timeline any other appearances in other NFS titles from the m3 GTR are classed as "replica" however the guy then goes on to say that in the latest NFS unbound near the end of the story mode u need to (i think) deliver a car that's being stored in a shipping container and whatta know bmw bursts out the client for this mission is someone callin themselves "the blacklist" the guy suspended this to b the main baddie of 2005's most wanted Razor who was the one who took ur bmw in MW after he sabotaged it but it was "totalled" in the opening of carbon with the chase from Cross so ye dunno what happened for the 13 years where the actual bmw wasn't present