BMW M3 (G80)
Why 7.3: The grille argument never stopped; the cars got driven anyway. Manual take rate healthy, wagons and sedans doing family duty at speed — the M3 brief, intact.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The S58 is hard and clean under load and the mid-range shove is genuinely audible. But BMW muffles it with two turbos, then replaces what it removed with a speaker track. The E46's S54 did all of this unaided, which is why that car sits nearly three points higher.
6-cylinder · turbocharged · 7,200 rpm redline · rated 6.0 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €69k (2021) → €52k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Two outer rear ISOFIX positions with top tether, i-Size compatible; middle rear seat is belt-only, matching the closest documented sibling (F90 M5).
No front-passenger ISOFIX — consistent with every G-series BMW; the front bracket option was dropped after the E9x generation and never returned.
BMW G-series ISOFIX pattern, cross-referenced against the BMW M5 (F90) official Suitable Seats document; EU ISOFIX mandate for new type approvals (owner-community sourced, not manufacturer documentation)
The long version
The internet spent two years arguing about the grille while actual buyers quietly optioned three pedals in respectable numbers and used the car as intended — a sedan that turns school-run duty into a back-road blast without anyone noticing the switch. Values have slid steadily since launch, ordinary depreciation for a car that isn't being hoarded, which is itself a sign of health: nobody's protecting a G80 as an investment, they're driving it down in value the normal way. The styling debate turned out to be noise; the ownership pattern underneath it is the most conventional story on this list.