After the mini goes in for its third gearbox, you can never have enough gear boxes on a 13 month old car, Snows BMW (the jury is still out on them) they have this time given me a BMW 520 SE as a courtesy car. The 520 has a couple of obviously features, one of which is the weird Ignition key thingy goes in on the left of the steering wheel. This in its self is so wrong it's untrue, slightly made up for by the fact they now have a Start engine button ( with added stupid american feature, it wont start the engine unless the clutch is down). The other feature is the new hideous look.
The SE comes with DTC which I assume is the cheaper version of DSC which my 330 has, turning this off makes the car slightly tail happy, but only if the conditions are damp and you thrash the nuts of the tiny little engine. Also included on this monster of a car are some tiny little 15" wheels which make the arches look quite hideous, mind you I did have to park it next to an E46 M3 today with 19's on, so that may be subjective.
So in summary if your in the market for a large 4 door executive saloon, then 2 doors aside the M3 is the car for you.
Update 23/02 : Ooo Just discovered that when you unlock the car at night the door handles iluminate from the bottom with white LED's thats very cool. Less cool is the 2.0 litre engine, which I swear is less smooth than the 1.3 in my MG metro many moons ago
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