I Decided that the rear of the car will look complete with a rear wing on it. In my experience, I've seen three good looking rear wings for the Ti.
1. The BMW OEM Rear wing. Pretty conservative relative to other tuners out there, except for the fact that it has a bad ass authentic ///M technic symbol smack dab in the middle of it. Classy and makes the car look sporty.
2. The Hartge 318ti compact hatchback rear spoiler. eg
http://www.hartge.de/part5a.jpg http://www.hartge.de/part9a.jpg http://www.hartge.de/assets/images/E36compact.jpg http://i16.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/64/f5/bb_1_b.JPG Unique Styling, still relatively conservative. Only issue is, I can't seem to get a good angle on how it actually looks. It protrudes pretty significantly out of the rear it seems, almost in a duck tail fashion. Too much of that could be a no-no. But I'd like to see more of it if possible.
3. The rieger rear wing for the e36 Compact.
http://www.318ti.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=102 Aggressive, but not over the top, I think it transforms the car well. Of course the rear apron is executed quite well on this pic too, so that could have something to do with it. From what I understand, this rear wing could possibly require modification of the rear wiper or the rear antennae. My memory fails me, but I recall there being an issue with one of the two... I emailed the AMI staff (a us distributer of rieger), but the rep didn't know better of any modification required. jedermann sprechen Deutsches?
Impressions anyone? Additional suggestions to stir the pot??
-Writeb