It basically boils down to how much speed you want to trade for driver’s feel and vice versa. A e92 335is the perfect balance, E36 is full on drivers feel (E46 is the same it’s basically just a face-lift in the end) and F80 is full on speed, G80 basically just improves everything the F80 did, similarly to how E46 improves what the e36 did without changing the car’s personality.
Out of those though, the E92 M3 is the quirkiest. Its main premise is the sound, and it is already way too heavy to be considered a pure driver’s car like the E36/e46, it still doesn’t have the electric steering which is nice, and was the only 3 series with a V8
It basically boils down to how much speed you want to trade for driver’s feel and vice versa. A e92 335is the perfect balance, E36 is full on drivers feel (E46 is the same it’s basically just a face-lift in the end) and F80 is full on speed, G80 basically just improves everything the F80 did, similarly to how E46 improves what the e36 did without changing the car’s personality.
Out of those though, the E92 M3 is the quirkiest. Its main premise is the sound, and it is already way too heavy to be considered a pure driver’s car like the E36/e46, it still doesn’t have the electric steering which is nice, and was the only 3 series with a V8