[bahasad]

Just thought I'd type out a quick little intro before I sign out for the night: Today I bought my first brand new car ever, a present for my 25th birthday, and I am in love. I signed the lease papers for a 2014 328I Xdrive with the following specs: Sportline package, Glacier Silver, Dakota Black leather, Navigation, Cold Weather Package, Premium Package, Driver Assistance package, and perhaps one or two other things I forgot about.

I am upgrading from an E90 328I (which I still have and is going to be used by my parents/sister). I was looking at a 2011 E90 335I non-sport, the 2015 A3 2.0T premium plus, and a base F30 328I. The reason I went with the F30 is because of the overall package - no it is not as quick as the 335I, but it feels much more modern inside, has way more interior space, much better seats, looks a lot newer, and is about the same to about from 0 to 40/50 as the 335I. The A3 would have been a good choice, but in the end it was smaller, much lighter steering, didn't look as good, and the interior felt very barebones despite having good options.

I feel like this 2014 F30 is perfect balance - it is quite quick when you put it in sport or sport+ (way faster than my E90), returns good MPG, has a very nice interior, very spacious, looks great, feels modern, and has traditional bmw handling/braking, although the steering is lighter than previous generations.

Overall I am very happy with the car, and am having a feeling that I'm going to purchase after lease-ends. I do still have some upgrades I'm going to do that are reasonable - the grills, spacers, possibly eibach springs, and most importantly a tune.

All in good time but here is a potato pic to keep y'all satisfied:

[NOBLE MOTORCARS]

congrats, looks good

[dtn]

2014 328 has sport+? Or is it the xi? Hmm.

[cwazy1]

he must has gotten SAT to have sport+

[.BMW.]

Congrats.

[tturedraider]

Originally Posted by bahasad

Just thought I'd type out a quick little intro before I sign out for the night: Today I bought my first brand new car ever, a present for my 25th birthday, and I am in love. I signed the lease papers for a 2014 328I Xdrive with the following specs: Sportline package, Glacier Silver, Dakota Black leather, Navigation, Cold Weather Package, Premium Package, Driver Assistance package, and perhaps one or two other things I forgot about.

I am upgrading from an E90 328I (which I still have and is going to be used by my parents/sister). I was looking at a 2011 E90 335I non-sport, the 2015 A3 2.0T premium plus, and a base F30 328I. The reason I went with the F30 is because of the overall package - no it is not as quick as the 335I, but it feels much more modern inside, has way more interior space, much better seats, looks a lot newer, and is about the same to about from 0 to 40/50 as the 335I. The A3 would have been a good choice, but in the end it was smaller, much lighter steering, didn't look as good, and the interior felt very barebones despite having good options.

I feel like this 2014 F30 is perfect balance - it is quite quick when you put it in sport or sport+ (way faster than my E90), returns good MPG, has a very nice interior, very spacious, looks great, feels modern, and has traditional bmw handling/braking, although the steering is lighter than previous generations.

Overall I am very happy with the car, and am having a feeling that I'm going to purchase after lease-ends. I do still have some upgrades I'm going to do that are reasonable - the grills, spacers, possibly eibach springs, and most importantly a tune.

All in good time but here is a potato pic to keep y'all satisfied:

Congrats.

Originally Posted by dtn

2014 328 has sport+? Or is it the xi? Hmm.

Originally Posted by cwazy1

he must has gotten SAT to have sport+

Sport and M Sport lines both have Sport+, regardless of the type of transmission.

[Danman5666]

Congrats!

[munch520]

Originally Posted by tturedraider

Sport and M Sport lines both have Sport+, regardless of the type of transmission.

Interesting. Thought you had to get the 'sport auto' option to get
-paddles
-Sport+

[mike@x-ph.com]

Congrats!!

[bahasad]

Yes car has Sport+ (pretty sure that's standard for sport-line models if not all 2014 F30s):
More gratuitous photos taken with my crappy S4:
















As you can tell no paddle-shifters

[utenigma]

And no sport AT shift handle

[adhrp]

Looks great! Congrats!

[Need4Speed_Motorsports]

Congrats on the purchase! Any mods planned?

[joewalton]

Please, no E90 photos in this forum, makes us nauseous.

[tuned2ride]

That E90 looks very "Europulent" with those wheels. Very nice.

[bahasad]

Originally Posted by Need4Speed_Motorsports

Congrats on the purchase! Any mods planned?

I thought going into this that I would keep this car stock, but i can never do that with any of my cars, especially my BMWs.

Right now my plans within the next 6 months are exterior focused: tinted windows, black kidney grills, dipped wheels, body-colored reflectors, some spacers.

Beyond that I am considering swapping the suspension to a very mild drop - i.e. Eibach springs or swap the M-sport springs. But I can't do anything drastic like on my E90 because a) this car is new, warrantied and I don't want to jeopardize that b) I am going to be living in MI where the roads are terrible and the winter is long/hard so I need all the clearance I can get.

Performance - definitely will get an intake and a Stage 1 tune. I am praying that Dinan, BMW, or Cobb release a tune that is either factory warrantied or simply an access port. But I am very satisfied with the performance now.