BMW doesn’t want you to buy a 3 series sedan instead of a 3 series wagon, it wants you to buy an X3. Which is made here, and probably costs them less to make (it may even be cheaper to buy, I once spec’ed out a 535i and an X5, and the X5 cost less comparably equipped, if you add an upcharge for a 5 series wagon an X5…

If you want a manual in this segment, I would go with the Accord Sport 2.0T. In everything but looks I think it’s a better car, the only thing that bothers me about the Accord is that it should have been a 5 door.

And yet despite the deficit in power, the M3/M4 was always competitive performance-wise against its main competitors, the C63 and Giulia Quadrifoglio.

Just recently bought a CPO car, the manufacturer rate was 1.5% less than the best rate I could find from my credit union and from shopping around.

The 2 series coupe/convertible and related M2 (and the outgoing 1 series hatch) are actually the odd ones out. The whole 1 and 2 series lineup are FWD (in the case of the 1 series sedan, the 2 series vans, the 2 gran coupe, the X1/X2) or are going FWD (in the case of the upcoming new 1 series hatch). In fact it’s…

Re: the super bottle. Instead of replacing a simple hose or sensor etc, you’ll have to replace a single integrated unit for $3k. Just ask anyone with a BMW diesel, one of the DEF tanks is festooned with sensors and whatnot, and the plastic will inevitably crack, requiring replacement of the entire tank at $3k. Problem…

Though he was indeed pious, it’s Pope Pius XII

In other markets, there is a 1 series sedan, and there is or soon will be a 2 Gran Coupe (since odd model numbers = sedans and even numbers = coupes, never mind the 6GT). Sadly they are both based off the FWD UKL platform, i.e. you’re buying a more expensive and possibly even less reliable MINI sedan. 

Ironic/sad that the front of the 330i M sport variant of the G20 3 series looks way better than the M340i variant. Mostly because of the hideously busy bumper and not BMW at all looking grill on the M340i.

To me the only thing I’d change visually is get rid of the chrome and replace with gloss black (like BMW shadow line trim).

The 2.0T/6MT version is available only in one configuration, though a good one, with heated/cooled pleather seats, LSD, Brembos, sports exhaust, and Lexicon audio. I’m ok with that.

A more modern, sleeker “War of the Worlds” style third brake light would have worked real well with this new body style.

The way the rule is written in the comment, I would construe it as “you are permitted no more than one ICE in a vehicle”. It doesn’t say that you must have an ICE. Zero ICEs is less than or equal to one ICE. To me, it is only fair that ambiguities in a rule should be applied in favor of the person against whom it is…

CPO BMW 3 series GT. I’m serious. I just got one and love it (‘16 335i M-Sport, it cost me between what a new GTI Autobahn and Golf R cost). It’s basically a larger, more mature hot hatch, and isn’t slow by any stretch of the imagination, especially the 335i/340i variants. It even looks the part with the M-Sport…

Front 3/4 view has a whiff of the last Pontiac Bonneville, especially from the rear door onwards.

Good: more power, especially in M340i guise

I’m not sure, TBH. The B48 and B58 engines are fairly new (they came out along with the 2015 MY refresh of the prior (F30) 3 series. The new variants have significantly more torque (B48) and/or more power (B58)... the M340i now comes with a 380hp version of the engine while the prior 340i had a 340hp version. These…

“We” developed 😄

Better than the vents of the new G wagon (and A class) that look like puckered bungholes

Gossage is such an a-hole that I would never go to a race a TMS, even though I have family that lives a mile or so away across I-35, but I’m going to make an effort to go to the race at COTA