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Originally Posted by wayman519

These forums use to be all of us awing at the car and bragging about how it is so much better than, mercedes, audi, porsche, infinity, Cadillac , lexus etc. Now its just people saying come on give this car a chance. We are on these forums because we loved BMWs from before we could drive. We have lived through 2 BMW generations before we could drive, and maybe another before justifying paying for one or more. We know these cars even though we have not owned them all. We wanted most of them until now. Paul Rosche is gone, Biermann left, BMW have no F1 team. Might be time to look elsewhere for a proper driving experience.

Spot on. I'm a big fan of what my M340i does well, but it isn't perfect and a lot of that imperfection is frustrating because it is what BMW did so very well for years.

I think that the other lux-lite guys making drivers cars definitely have the classic ultimate driving machine concept in their sights. Cadillac came SO CLOSE. Genesis will either season the recipe into perfection or spill salt all over it. Watch out for the next Mazda6, rumored to be RWD with an inline-6!!