Thread: M550i or M340i?
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      04-01-2019, 01:26 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by Tk718 View Post
Year ago also was debating by between 550 540 , x3 m40, 340 gran coupe. I was leasing and my 550 was only $150 more per month vs 540 and I never had V8 car. 3 series felt less refined, more noisy on highway, I needed more room in rear for car seat and bigger trunk. x3 m40i was probably the closest to what I wanted but v8 won.
The 340 you drove was the prior generation. The current M340 has just gone on sale and is built on the same platform as the 5 series. It’s a huge improvement and the gap between the 3 and 5 in refinement is much lower. Material quality still has a large gap, but NVH, ride and stability are all much closer to the 5 than ever before
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