Never looked at BMW before as having been in colleagues performance BMW over the years can state categorically that what others consider fun (the back wiggling about) is not my idea of fun - I am a pretty relaxed passenger but the times when I was not were all in performance BMW, one time in the wet was particularly convincing.
Also the last bad winter, where there was a quite a bit of snow, the cars that were mainly abandoned in our company car park were all BMW.
So as you can tell RWD has not ever been for me on a performance car, fun on a track?, massively i expect, but on a UK road you can keep them.
Imagine I am not alone and maybe why BMW have opted to go FWD and extend the AWD as standard fits on their new performance BMW like the 135i
It came too late for me to consider it, but think I would have openly gone and looked and seen what it was all about.
Initial impressions are that its not the worst to look at though think its not that pretty either, a sort of ok generic hatchback that see across the range
The interior looks good though and think its in same vein as the new MK 8 thats upcoming with the 2 screens sweeping across and creating some twin effect.
In terms of drive, the 300 BHP and AWD combination would tick my box and it would only be the ride that would want to know about, but think it would be a non issue and a chassis control option would tick that as being perfectly good also.
There should not be any new car worries really as its not like BMW have ripped up the play book, its just a reconstituted Mini Cooper Works with a BMW cabin bolted to it (know there is more to it than that, but fundamentally) and thats considered a decent option ( i looked at one, its just too blown up for me in styling, its like everything has had air line applied to it to exaggerate features)
So BMW have put themselves back into the frame for folk like me and it would be down to comparing the finer options and on face of it I feel I would likely have deferred this time around as it simply does not grab me like the A35 AMG did when went to look at - Will have a look next time around
I am quite pragmatic about most things and have no real loyalty, I would readily swap if felt something was compelling enough so testament to the old girl MK 7 for keeping me for another 3 years despite the growing choice out there in segment
