BMW 3 Series Coupe review

Overpriced pieces of crap. The only thing they had going for them was handling, and my Scion will handle just as well as a Big Mangled Wreck.

Save $15,000 and buy a Jap car. They're far more reliable.

Er, no. Your Scion hasn't nearly the skid pad or handling of a BMW 3 series with sport suspension.

Overpriced? What car isn't?

Ugly to some? The new ones disgust me. Chris Bangle should be executed...painfully.

Notice you didn't address the reliability! ;)

They're too new. Our E46 and the E39 I sold have been bulletproof.

The new twin-turbo 3.5L has oil cooling troubles that BMW sort of, you know, doesn't want to talk about. ;-)

All BMWs seem to be botch-jobs in one way or another;

oil cooling issues hinky electronics Idrive brutal ride over minimally-unfriendly pavement horrendous repair costs reliability issues ....ad nauseum

A very broad brush you wield, my friend. As stated, I currently own an E46 convertible, and used to own an E39. Both have been more reliable than my Camry.

I'll agree with you on iDrive, as it's clunky and not for the technically challenged. Brutal ride? Not in your life. Repair costs? A new batter for my E39. That's it. Oil cooling issues are only on the new 3.5L

Indeed.

In college, my roomate's mom gave him a 2002tii. Hellatious car! After 6 months he gave it back saying he couldn't afford it. "But I gave it to you!" "Yeah, and $250 a month in repairs!"

It had 42,000 miles on it...

(I don't drive on skidpads very often...)

I could say the same thing for a number of cars in that era.

But when I do, I'll take our E46 over the Scion tc I test drove.