agreed, beautiful! I hate spending anything north of $1500 and still having something w/ a cheap, plastic finish...

In soviet russia, led light breaks YOU!

EXACTLY! The #1 reason I subscribe to C&D is for the writing... clever, funny stuff. Likewise, the best articles/reviews on Autoblog are the ones that have a dash of character thrown in. To all you whining asshats (esp. Johnny), get a life!

The placement of the 2 cars in the shot was likely intended to have the cars roughly side-by-side; the fact that the Bimmer looks slightly ahead being the product of the photos' timing.

Just like Consumer Reports... don't take their writing as gospel, just use their opinions to help YOU make up your OWN mind!

maybe they should slap some razor blades to the agitator... good for cutting hair... not so much for toes ;)

Love it...

I just saw some commercial on TV where BMW was touting the "most fuel efficient range of luxury vehicles" or something like that. I thought I saw a 3'er in the picture too....

I'm curious, what are the main reasons that might prevent BMW from bringing this car to the US? California emissions?

glad I'm on DirecTV... I love those two channels! I'll likely switch to FIOS soon, although that'd be a definite strike against if if they too decided to drop 'em.

yeah, with the N54, owners will have tons of options to get more power, far beyond BMW's own "safe" 20hp option. Of course, they'll still be stuck with that electric steering and gobs of extra weight.
Glad I picked up my Z4M Coupe when I did :)

surprised this hasn't come up more often, but...

what about the concept of backlighting an LCD panel using DLP projection? You may not get the same contrast resulting from on/off LEDs, but the granularity of control would more than make up for this fact. You could also forgo all the circuitry & mechanical bits of a standard DLP television and simply have, say, 8 bits to control the brightness. Then it would just be a matter of alignment, no more difficult than doing so with 3 old-school CRTs, but without the worry of things getting out-of-whack over time!

I've been a D* customer for about 6 years and it's been pretty trouble-free, aside from wind knocking my dish out of alignment a few weeks ago.

However, the price has gone up (slowly) over time and picture quality has continued to go down. Channels/shows labeled as HD are often not (stretched), down-res'd or over compressed. But FIOS is currently being setup in my neighborhood, so I'll soon have options & I think it'll be an easy choice.

Interesting comments... in retrospect, and with the 2009 Z4 info released, it seems the E86 Z4 M coupe that will be remembered over the Z3...