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Wonder if that 3.5 will make the new 6 just as nose-heavy as the 3.0 did. The 6 is a nice car but Mazda sorta missed on a few counts - lack of power, poor balance, tight interior.

Agree with others. A search online reveals many places selling the TV for under 1600 (tax and shipping free too). You can buy a PS3 online too and save the $40 in tax too. Heck, avoid Sony and you can get other brand 1080p TVs for far less.

@teengamer

Best Buy usually offers 24 months same as cash on most TV purchases with their CC. At the worst you could do 12 months same as cash (0% interest) with a Best Buy card and no promotion. My first HDTV in 2002 was purchased with a 2 years SAC (same as cash). Pretty easy to pay off 2k when it's interest free...

Funny how few of you recall that Stewart already tried this. He didn't fly. Like many others, Stewart's humor works fine in the small, cloistered world of cable but as he's proven already: Americans don't embrace him on a wide scale.

People brought up Maher - well Maher did the same thing as Stewart: cable, then network and back to cable. On HBO Maher can have the show he wants.

Another example? Dennis Miller burned as a late night guy, moved to HBO and had huge success.

Stewart used to fill in for Tom Snyder (remember him?) on CBS when Snyder fell ill in the 90s. Stewart was at ease and very good but in the end he opted for the world of Cable.

Stewart is a big, big star on Comedy Central. He and Colbert rule the roost. There exists no reason to leave. He's done network before and it didn't work out.

How is it illegal to dress a car up when testing it? They don't want people thinking toyota so they put on a bodykit that looks Nissan. Shrug. No law against that. They made a mule even uglier...

Roth is a whiner. That simple.

JG, trust me. Join BMWCCA and take your car to a track. You will see your BMW in an entirely new light...and your driving will improve.

@ashirt

You don't think M3s are daily drivers? Oh boy you must live in some backwoods place. I can go into the parking garage and find at least 9 M3s. Hell, I work with two people who have them. And insurance is not that high on an M3 vis-a-vis any other car.

You will never go to germany? Just have it in for the Gerries or all of Europe or is it the world? Do you want to remain in little ole USA forever?

Won't track either. Hmmm, yeah sounds like you dig the M3 for all the right reasons: looks. lol

I've currently got an e90 330i. It's my second BMW in the last few years. Picked it up in Germany last year. Drove it across Europe and then had it shipped back to me in the states.

Really, bub, get a grip. You mouth off that the M3 shouldn't be "watered down" with sedan and wagon versions even though such things existed in the E36 (do you know what that is?) and currently exist in the form of the M5/M6. BMW is trying to appeal to a broader segment and the M3 used to appeal to more people. BMW made an acknowledged mistake by limiting the e46 to just an M3 coupe/vert. The ZHP's sales success revealed a deep desire by BMW sedan buyers to get a performance variant of the e46 sedan. The Sedan, in case you didn't know, comprises over 70% of the 3 series sales. There's a market that's dying for a smaller, nimble, excessively fast perforance sedan. The e90 M3 will fit that bill.

As for 140+, that was on the autobahn. Do you know what that is? That it's legal and pretty damned safe - especially compared to the dangers of driving on sh!thole highways and around lazy US drivers?

Track you car. You're learn something about handling, weight distribution, entry/exit speeds, apexes, lines and in general you'll learn far more about how to control your car.

@ashirt...

Actually, the M3's appeal IS that it's a daily driver. You'd know this if you'd actually driven one. It's a fine around town car but on the track and in the right hands it's a terror. So, if you understood the M, you'd understand they are daily drivers and part of the total appeal of BMW comes from the fact they can be driven m-f to work and on saturday at the track.

Again, you're confusing poseur. A poseur is someone who thinks a performance car must be 2 doors. That's myopic. I gave you a solid reason why the e46 should have had a sedan: the e46 sedan's chassis was much stiffer than the coupes. Do you know that means? That means on the TRACK, not on the street preening, the e46 sedan was a better handling car. Match the tighter chassis to the M3 LSD/power and you would have had a much better track car. Of course, that means nothing to you as you care about something as inconsequential as looks.

Suggesting any MB is ludicrous as they only come with automatics in the AMG line.

Actually, the M3 vert is just a waste. Again, if you've never tracked, you'd never understand. If you've never tracked and you own any BMW it's akin to dating a super model but only seeing her in the dead of winter in alaska. You can tell she's hot but you're missing out on what's really fun. An M3 vert weighs over 3600 lbs. Do you have any inkling what that means? I'm guessing, no. 3600 lbs on the 46 chassis = flaccid. The M3 vert is moderately fast in a straight line but its excess weight prohibits it from being exceptional in the corners.

FWIW, the M3 is anything BUT exclusive. BMW sells almost as many M3s as they do coupes. Check the sales of the M3 e46 from 2002-2005. The M3 is NOT exclusive. But of course, you're into appearances so you want to believe the M3 is somehow special (it is in terms of roadgoing but not for sales exclusivity).

Tell me when you've been to Germany to pick up your BMW. Tell me when you've tracked a Bimmer. When was the last time you did over 140 MPH LEGALLY? Yeah, poseur. Bugger off.

I'm betting you can't even tell me the difference between an e90, e92, ZSP or ZHP. You're not a bimmer fan. You're someone who thinks bimmers are cool but you've never really tracked an M3 or any bimmer. You haven't the foggiest notion what an apex is or what balance would have to do with application of power or transitions.

It's okay, one day maybe you'll learn how to drive and you'll understand the importance of chassis stiffness and weight in terms of automobile performance.

Captain ignorant, there's nothing watered down about expecting a coupe/sedan/wagon of M models. Outside the USA these cars are produced. Otherwise, the other models are legit.

The e36 M3 came as all of the above in europe and in the USA we got a handful of them. The 46 M3 limited the car to only the coupe and the ridiculously fat convertible.

The e46 sedan had a stiffer chassis than the e46 coupe. Do you have any understanding of what that would mean for performance? Yeah, a better handling car. BMW made a mistake with the e46 M3 by never releasing a sedan version. Partly for sales reasons and partly because it encouraged Americans to think that only two doors are performance oriented. Now they must re-teach Americans that M3 can be a sedan or coupe...

The RS4 has nothing to do with this (its sales are super tiny). The sales of the e36 M3 sedan and the sales of the e46 ZHP are proof that Americans also wanted an M version of the 3 series sedan. RS4...just another fat Audi pretending to be a performance car. The M models all over the world are 2/4/5 door (M6, M5 sedan, M5 wagon). It's a global economy kids.

Are you gonna contend that the M5 isn't a hot car because it's a sedan? Or the Alpina 7 is lame because it's got 4 doors?