Oh dear, if you think the E46 330xi is boring, then you'd better stay away from the E90s.

Now that I'm at home, I switch between the '06 325i sport and my X3. I try to drive the latter a bit less due to the obvious fuel consumption, but I'm not warming up to the 3 at all. Aside from its many "issues" (nothing to do with the driving capability actually), the 325i is amazingly dull. It fails to speak to me at all. Whenever I carve up a mountain road in the X3, my heart is beating hard with excitement at the end. In the 3, sure I can go much faster........but I probably fell asleep halfway around the first bend.

I wrote a review about a 335i I had earlier this week in the Premier Section. An engineering marvel it was. But I wouldn't buy one.