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      08-08-2010, 11:43 PM   #2
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Not to start an all out war here, but these types of articles have become predictable. Old car is slower but more fun to drive, new car is faster, but is larger, heavier, and feels more isolated and therefore is less fun to drive.

The fact is, if the basic 3 series had remained a smaller, lightweight car, it would have lost sales to competitors. The market has over time forced these cars into what they are. Give BMW credit for keeping its formula for the 3 series alive, over multiple generations and multiple advancements in technology. As a person who works in an industry where we design, certify amd fabricate components, you come to appreciate a company like BMW that has managed to define and capture what each of its segment cars are, and has kept that fomula alive from generation to generation.

Certainly, the E30 M3 and any basic E30 are legendary cars, but to me, the real story is how BMW has been successful at maintaining that DNA through generations.

So in summary, I don't completely agree with the article from Edmunds.
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