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Coming back to this thread after seeing all the reviews of the new 3/4 and now new 2-series, there's a very distinct theme that this is the best -performing generation of BMW yet, and the dynamic issues of the previous gens have been addressed to various degrees.
The more enthusiast-bent reviewers dislike the auto (which I anticipated, but can be avoided by getting manual). Almost everyone hates the heinous looks, which cannot be fixed.
So if we're keeping score, pretty much the only thing standing in our way from getting a great group of cars is the design. If you can live with the looks, or even like it, congrats. There's no other downside.
But on the other hand, there never was any reason to have a downside!! If the design was evolutionary, or more classic, or even revolutionary but not revolting to a large group of people, there would be absolutely no reason NOT to buy a BMW.
To say this a different way - Mr. Dukec has completely let down the rest of the company by creating weakness when there was none. I feel particularly sorry for all those engineers who actually listened to customers and engineered their asses off to build something that seems to blow the doors off the previous cars. And now here we are and the whole discourse is argument about the aesthetics
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