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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Schwepps" data-source="post: 399476" data-attributes="member: 3592">If it makes you feel any better, I too consider my 218hp 325i a performance car, and I would prefer all aspects of it to anything else from Germany, let alone Japan. :wink:But the question is what Americans consider a performance or luxury car at the tail end of that report. The Yanks consider no car below 3.5l to be 'luxury', or below 300hp to be 'performance'. Performance to them is a European exotic, or for example, a Corvette. A baseline 'Vette is a 6.2l V8 428hp car. Price? About USD50k, less than a 320i to us. A top-of-the-line Corvette ZR-1 is a 638hp supercharged V8. Price? About USD100K, still cheaper than a 335i to us. A 325i is something they might buy for a teenaged daughter. All the 330s and 335s that I saw in suburban USA were driven by WOMEN. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>