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Originally Posted by myzmak
Of course this is right, why should anyone care?
At the end of the day, whether Sutcliffe or Lagos or Harris or Clarkson or Probst or anyone else likes or dislikes the car does not affect my own subjective experience with and appreciation for the car. When driving it, I can honestly say I have never thought of another reviewer or one of the nay sayers on this forum. Ever.
But, as the originator of this thread (and others like it) I can at least offer my own answer(s) for why I created it: Mostly, it is about trying to keep people honest when generalizing about the car. There is a view out there that the E9X was untouchable and never criticized. That was not so, but it has become this popular belief to the point of being an unchallengeable proposition. Many of the same believers of that folk tale also say that the F8X has been comparatively panned or ripped apart in reviews. Again, not true. Where it becomes a problem is when the usual army of trolls comes over here to find any positive commentary on the F8X and drops in a 'yeah, but the car gets shit reviews, not like the E9X which was a god among men, etc, etc'.
Those comments were getting common and repetetive enough to start to be damn annoying and (being the sort of weirdo I am) I wanted to have a nice convenient source of knowledge to say "no, that is wrong, go away" in response to their unsupported vague generalities. In that regard, by and large they done a great job...though some areas that were hyped up have turned out to be a bit underwhelming. Overall, the car has certainly moved ahead.
So I created these compilations for my own nerdy use and then wrote them up and published them cause, hey, maybe there are other losers like me out there (sorry boys, you've proved its true. losers.  )
Implicit in all of that, I am an argumentative son of a bitch by nature. So if it helps me argue, I like it. 
This stuff helps me argue with those clowns.
Lastly, fuck man, some of us had to wait longer than you to get our hands on one of these and reviews (from the pros or even guys like this loser (  ) were all we had to go on as we lived vicariously:
http://www.bimmerfest.com/news/80452...pean-delivery/)
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End of the day, this is right as far as not caring about reviews which may or may not be biased.
Every street car is compromised in some way, and there are no exceptions to that.
Furthermore, no M3 ever, whether past, present or future is going to be winning "Best" anything. There are plenty of better handling, better braking, faster, you name it better cars out there. What matters most is how BMW moved the M3 from one generation to another. By and large, it is vastly improved, though some of the "hyped" up areas (cough steering couch) are still far from an industry best. Overall, there are more areas that improved than those that didn't.