Review: The 2015 BMW M235i Proves BMW Hasn't Lost Its Edge - The Cheat Sheet
By now, anyone who reads my articles on a regular basis is familiar with the fact that, prior to moving to Boston, I owned a 1999 BMW 540i with a six-speed manual transmission and the sports suspension. It was exactly what a BMW should be. Since the early-to-mid-2000s, though, the story with BMW has been that it’s lost its edge. But after my time in the BMW M235i convertible, I can tell you that if anything has been lost in the last 10 or 15 years, BMW has found it again. I was a fan of the 1 Series and its diminutive size, but its baby-BMW proportions never really gave it the look of a real BMW. Like with the exterior design, I thought the interior was exactly what it should be for a BMW sports car. You want a BMW to have a nice interior, and you certainly don’t want it to feel flimsy or cheap, but you also don’t want to be swaddled in luxury. I was generally happy with the interior while I was driving it. The thing is, though, sitting down in the M235i, it was think too much about the interior because of the fact that I was driving a 320-horsepower, rear-wheel-drive convertible with a... That’s a recipe for a lot of fun no matter what car you’re driving, but I had a BMW, which had the. Source: www.cheatsheet.com
