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Originally Posted by stefan
I've had the E90 M3. Around town, the motor is totally useless. It needs to be rung out to feel any kind of emotion or power from it, which means you're breaking every speed limit in 2nd gear. Below 4000rpm it feels very slow/lumbering. But.. over that... different beast. Coming from a peaky turbo motor like the S58, it'll feel slow sorry to say. Have you considered the absolute gem from that generation that is the 335is?
Handling wise I think it's insane people compare these X series cars to the Fxx and older BMWs. The E90 M3 will handle like an M car with a hyper communicative rear end that is very easy to modulate and throw around. This just isn't the case with the X3M.
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Those are my thoughts too. I small V-8 that lacks lots of low end torque is going to feel slow on the street. Even my friends with health E90 M3's have ridden in my E90 335i M-sport & the immediately say, the car is quicker in every way. As a daily driver, I would have to drive the M3 pretty hard to really enjoy it. Despite this , congrats OP & let us know what you get next.