[BMWDAD]

Originally Posted by Madozu

Indeed, European drivers and press have an affinity to small, powerful cars that have first-class handling. Reasonable parts of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria have tons of narrow-winding roads where smaller cars with less weight are in advantage.

I can imagine that the 1M (given it's a sort of back-to-basics driving machine) will get high marks in the European press ... and the new 1M could really take the position of the early M3s before they started to become heavy, large and stuffed with electronics. There are still some guys that prefer to drive a car instead of programming it

Nicely said.