Another poster on here stated that his BMW transmission (auto) went out on him pretty early. There was a link to another site with a long list of people whose BMW transmission went out on them...mostly these were 2000 and 2001 years, I didn't see any older.
Did BMW change the transmission for 2004 years and later 3 series? OR is it just a bad transmission?
Is their transmission problems also readily apparent in the manual versions? Or are those OK?
I can live with things breaking, but not something so poorly designed it costs thousands to fix at under 100,000 miles.