Check out this great review in NYTimes... (m) (archive)

its on the Lexus IS300, but i am not telling you to check it out b/c i like the lexus, as a matter of fact i highly dislike it. But the author did a GREAT job in thrashing the Lexus and pointing out the greatness of BMW in comparision i just thought that it was a great article.

Here are some choice parts:
"But the 3-Series's legendary quality is its high-performance handling. Once you are in the Bimmer's deeply bolstered driver's seat, the contoured leather wheel in your hands, it seems that your nerve endings stretch out to each wheel; control becomes less a matter of speculation than a matter of limbic certainty."

"How, exactly, BMW designers achieve such a lyric quality is something even they might find difficult to explain..."

click on the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/auto/wheels/082000auto-lexus.html

-dank

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