I went from a modded '93 325is (that beat my friends 95 M3 in a race) to the 4.6is, and never looked back! I do miss driving the manual, but love the X5 more for some reason. I sold the car to a friend of mine and got to drive it all the time, but he wrecked it and is too broke to fix it at the time. So now I gotta look at it in a broken state when I go to his house....