Category: Affordable Sports 
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Powerful, smooth engines, great fun to drive, full four-seat practicality, the can't-go-wrong option.
Bit dull to look at, arrogant image, increasingly the default choice in the sector and thus not particularly exclusive.
The 3-Series Coupe is every bit as good as predicted - but perhaps a little bit too predictable.
Merit points here to BMW for creating very strong roof pillars that are nonetheless relatively slender: so many cars these days have great thick pillars to improve impact protection, which then ironically obscure vision out of the car and thus increase the likelihood of an impact in the first place.
There's no Euro NCAP crash test score for this Coupe yet, but it should perform very well in this, as well as the assessments by US safety regulators.
Equipment includes, besides the usual ABS, traction control, stability control and cornering brake control in this class; a full complement of front, side and full-length curtain airbags, the latter mounted in order to offer full protection wherever the front seats are positioned; and standard two-stage LED brakelights and bi-xenon headlamps. Adaptive-beam and turning lights are optional.
The options also include full-beam lights which are claimed to automatically deploy or switch off when sensors detect an oncoming car, another car or even motorbike or cyclist ahead, or if the car is entering a built-up area, detecting reflectors. We've not had a chance to test this system as yet, though.
