The 3 Series is BMW’s most successful model line with more than 14 million sales globally, and now it has a new, top-of-the-line leader. The BMW 340i sedan is new for 2016 and comes with a new engine: ...

We Like: The styling, straight-six soundtrack, and improvements to front structure. We Don't Like: Admitting that the former benchmark is no longer out front. To fight father time, the 3 Series gets a ...

Even BMW's 3-Series needs an update from time to time, capable as it is, and for the 2016 model year the automaker's best-sized model has received a midcycle facelift. More than that, the range has ...

Then we drove a sport line variant of the 328i equipped with BMW's optional adaptive M suspension. Now this was more like it. The steering and chassis response, the grip, the controlled ride -- they ...

Two old foes are at it again. The never-ending battle of one-upmanship between BMW and Mercedes-Benz rages on. With the arms race for more power taking the M3 and C63 AMG to such ridiculous heights, ...

In 1995, Car and Driver said "those who genuinely enjoy the act of driving and still demand a practical compact sedan will have a tough time finding a better choice than one of these 3 Series Bimmers.

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Modern sports sedans, when done right, offer a superb combination of speed and practicality that is hard to beat. Sporty SUVs may excel off-road, but this comes at the expense of efficiency, handling, ...

Test cars with stick shifts are few and far between these days, even among press fleets for manual-loving automotive journalists. So when a stick-shift 2018 BMW 340i sedan entered Cars.com’s test pool ...

The world of luxury cars can be confusing. Just when we finally figure out a car’s name, it changes. Take the BMW 3 Series sedan, for example. BMW abandoned the trim naming convention that relied on ...

Messing with an icon can be trouble, something BMW found when it launched the sixth-gen 3 Series in 2012, and something it aims to redress with the 2016 340i. The car that had long been the sport ...

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