If you read the article though, you'll find that the 335 wins in nearly every aspect but price. I would say the king is very much alive and the BMW NA sales reports will support this. However, I'm buying an IS350, so I could not care less about these two cars

 

Even I'll admit that this is an impressive showing from Infiniti; but is it just me or does the BMW look better [outside] than the Infiniti in these pics...? Inside however, I just cannot get over the BMW's '80's interior - this is such a step backwards for BMW especially over my '02 M3's interior which I thought looked much better than it does now. I cannot believe I'm saying this but the G has the better interior IMO. However, even though the materials and looks are far better then the previous abortion of the past, unfortunately the G still suffers from poor assembly and fit-n-finish from the '07's that I've sat in and driven.

 

I also prefer the looks of the 335i coupe to the g37 coupe. The 335i's front just looks like it means business while the g37's front is lacklustering - like it might mean business but it rather sit back and drink some lattes while listening to Justin Timberlake.

Anyway, I think it's time for Lexus to introduce an IS coupe to jump into the game between BMW and Infiniti.

 

Yeah, I finally found scans, and I read it... pretty crazy. Literally every single number favored the 335i except price. It was still fairly close, though.

 

Yeah. Same thing happened when the first gen G came out. It was close to a BMW but cheaper. It only really wins the value argument. Don't get me wrong, it's a great car, just not for me, and I'm guessing, not for most of the CL members.

P.S. The NAV hard drive idea is really nice in a car in this price range. Props to infiniti. As I understand it, it rips your cds as you listen to them and stores them for later. Pretty cool stuff.

 

Eh the hard drive thing is more of a cool feature than a useful amenity (sp?). In my previous car i had an eclipse aftermarket GPS with the harddrive. I hardly ever used the thing. First let me state mine was a little different i think, it would only record cd's and radio, not mp3's. I prolly would have used it more if it would have recorded mp3s. The reason i found it not useful is because all my music is on Mp3 data cd's. I dont even keep the cd's in my car anymore. Using the harddrive was just like listening to a cd. Also you pretty much had to listen to everything you wanted to record, so you would have to play a cd all the way through, something i dont do very often.
The one nice thing about it that i did enjoy was if a song was playing on the radio and i liked it i could record it, or at least a clip to find it later on the internet to get the whole song, since i usually wouldnt have remembered it otherwise.