Raise and lower screen? No, oddly enough the original X3's did.

We have had ours since the first of the year or so and love it. The exhaust note is so nice!

Wife recently upgraded from an 08 X3 M-Sport but auto and while I’m sure she still has fond thoughts about the old one she loves the extra HP and sounds from the M40i. Her’s was alpine white with beige interior. I loved it as well but the repairs were getting old. Always loved the idea of a 6 speed one. Enjoy your…

Ha! yep. Between that and the bulky airbags of the day...

V4 and whatever is going on with that unique radiator cap placement. How interesting.

I tried posting a video of a good example of a brand ambassador pick but the link got lost in Kinja I guess.

Why are you so mad?

That’s all I would need. Beautiful lines. 

Interested to hear what kind of vehicle it was you bought. 

It will be a Toyota in name and body design only. Which is kind of sad for Toyota to be making such a big deal about and really trying to hang their performance-hat on.

Sounds about right.

Just got finished watching qualifying and it was pretty entertaining. Hope the race is just as entertaining. 

You don’t have to sell me on it. I was perfectly fine with the analog cluster of my E46 and the E83 but I’m glad we skipped the awkward years in between and am happy with the full digital we have now. 

My wife’s X3 M40i interior is spec’d the same and I love it.

That’s the odd in-between cluster. The optional 12.3" digital cluster is where its at.

Stef, with as much time as you seemed to spend around the Nürburgring and with a lot of the same things I’ve seen from Misha Charoudin did you happen to run in to him around Apex hotel/Car rental/Taxi service when you were there?

I really liked the photo flip layout(if that’s what its called) on this article. I with all of them had the attention to detail and originality as this article does. 

Exactly this. It is good, real good. 

The last version of that model with full LED headlights and all that did look great, yes. But that in between bullshit they did with dim head lights on top of a bright LED strip was terrible. I see people driving around with those DRLs on because that must be brighter than the dim-strip/halogen-headlight combo. 

Not in the market for this kind of vehicle but the styling attractiveness has gone down so much since the first coupe-ey looking body style came out. The rear end now doesn’t stand out at all from the elantra. Very plain and low end looking car now.