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Originally Posted by Germanauto
Even if you're comparing these cars to their competition at the time, the E90 was leaps and bounds ahead of the C-class, A4, and IS of its day. The G20 is a nice car but it's already lost some comparison tests.
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This is an important point.
To rank all of these generations of 3 series, they should be compared to the competition they had at that time.
In the light of that aspect, I think,
performance wise the euro spec e36 m3 (the 1995 facelift one specifically) is furthest ahead. 321HP in 1995 was extreme for such a car, especially with that power/weight ratio. The competition had to do with ~30% less.