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      07-16-2019, 09:51 AM   #13
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It depends.
If you drive your car in open roads, winding canyons I would get a 440i GC or something. Inline 6 makes a difference, and frankly, when you're driving along with one of the best engines in the world, everything else would dissapear and you would forget about the dated design or older tech. If you sit in traffic all day, or if you're like a more "normal person" who wouldn't notice the feel of the engine, G20 is the way to go. But if I were in your shoes; I would wait for a few months, save a little more and get M340i around December. By then, M3 will be introduced, M340i probably be discounted just like M550i has been right around M5 introduction, and you'll have additional discounts on top of it because you know, December, and they have their quotas to hit.

Before I got my 540i, I convinced myself to get a 530i instead and save a bunch of money. But then, I had the opportunity to drive 540i and 530i back to back. Even though my ride was less than half an hour long and in the city, and my bias was on the side of 530i, and my goal was to convince myself that the price difference doesn't worth it, the 540i was so much better that I had to go with 540i. It felt more complete, it felt like the engine and the chassis were more in sync, it felt like it had a lot of "reserve" power which made the driving experience way better. 530i felt more like they took out the engine from 540i and replaced with an engine that is very capable (And pretty amazing in terms of performance and economy); but didn't really belong to the car.
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