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Four Seasons
2012 BMW 328i – A Legend Returns
By Jason Cammisa / Photos by Eric McCandless
It sounds like a cliche, but the BMW 3-series really is
the standard by which all other sport sedans are
measured. Its influence has permeated the engineering
halls of automakers on every continent: Cadillac used to
manufacture rolling living rooms, Mercedes-Benzes
were once Teutonic isolation chambers, and Infinitis
were...well, nobody quite knew what they were. But
today, all three -- and their collective competitors -- make
cars directly aimed at the BMW 3-series.
The sound and smoothness of BMW’s straight-six
engine have long been a hallmark of the 3-series. For
2012, there’s a new 3-series, and it’s a clear and careful
evolution of its predecessors -- but there’s been a
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