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Originally Posted by Lucky1

It is striking, isn’t it? Although I wouldn’t use the word “better” in this case. Its just a twist on “they don’t make them like they used to”.

I like racy, high and FAST revving engines mates to a manual. That combination is so drivers car if you like rowing gears and rev matching. I also learned that faster car acceleration, louder cars and uncomfortably stiff cars are not great daily drivers either

You see, to me Porsche has solved part of the problem that BMW has created in the sense that they make cars that cater to both the need for speed and comfort crowd as well as the raw, racy and in their case now track focused. When you hit the 911 or Cayman GTS models, their lineup “forks” into Turbo for 911 and GT3/4 for the Cayman. You can choose which one you want based on what is important to you. Both perform exceptionally well but have completely different characters and daily livability

BMW IMO sticks to the “Turbo” route albeit availability of a manual on lower spec G80/82.

The last part of this for me personally is simply financial. I bought my E90 for 1/3rd the price of a G80 and 2/3rds the price of an F80. Maybe those cars will depreciate to there in a few years but they’re holding higher values.

If money were no object I’d do what all these crazy YouTubers are doing and buy a low mileage car for $80k+ USD I’d get an E46 M3 while I was at it too.

Where I see a difference with the E90 M3 is, it is unique because it has the V8 in it. While my personal preference for BMWs is with one of their in-line 6 engines (I've had four overall - still have two) the V8 in the E90 makes it different, which is why preserving a E90 M3 is different than wearing out an in-line 6 M3 and buying the next new version of the in-line 6 M3. Yeah, I get it, the newer M3 are much more capable and have more power from the turbo in-line 6 they have now, but it's not the S65 in the E90 M3.