[midlifecrisis]

In case someone from BMW is listening - I buy sport sedans because I'm a "car guy" who likes his cars to serve multiple purposes. The M3 is perfect in this context - as long as it has a manual transmission. I can use it for full involvement weekend fun or taking clients to lunch. For me, a manual transmission is still a fundamental requirement for my sports cars. I want them to require a level of skill and driver involvement to work properly. I drove an E90 M3 for seven years and sold it for a M235i cabrio, which in the final analysis wasn't as versatile (or sporty) as the M3. To me there's something special about a manual transmission in a sedan, especially one that has a raw edge like the M3.