btw, they unveiled the coupe on e90post yesterday. Well they caught spy pics of it totally naked !! It seems like the E90 has stiff competition versus the E92 (well for me at least!).

I agree with JCL, the 335 won't make it into the sedan the first year. Not only for reliability, but BMW will want to make it exclusive, and boost coupe sales any way they can. Then the next model year they can boost sedan sales by pushing in the 335 engine into the sedan. My guess is that the E90 will get another early model year, and start its life in March 07 as the 2008 3 Series. That way they can squeeze out some sales of the coupe, but not loose too many sales on the sedan (as the new G35 comes out in Nov)... Makes sense to me.

The 323 available in Canada still uses the E46 engine no? Wouldn't it make sense for BMW to upgrade this engine and then sell it to the U.S. market? BMW could then make the 323, 328 & 335i. But an actually attractive 323, instead of the current less then inspiring engine currently provided.

I believe there are going to be 3 models for the U.S. line-up. Someone made a point on E90 post about no 1 series sedan in the forseeable future, and without BMW ever bringing the 1 series hatch to the U.S., there would be a big hole at the very low end of the spectrum - enter the 323i. Then you could have the 2 series right above it, and then the 328i and 335i right above that. Essentially the 328i taking the 325i's slot and the 335i taking the 330i's slot with the 323 seriously undercutting both.

No-one really knows what BMW is up to, but it really is going to be interesting watching what happens over the next few months..!

Random idea, but maybe buy a car from the line-up that won't get hit bad and then switch over to the 335i? What about a CPO E46? Those won't take such a hit since they already took the launch of the E90. Maybe that IS isn't looking so bad right now... hahaha