Rather than being right for up, left for down, you use finger and thumb on either side, rather as you do in the new Porsche 911 PDK. There’s nothing wrong with the shift – it’s the shift buttons that conspire to confuse. This is visceral stuff, thrilling in a way that no six-cylinder competitor can get close to. Yes, the 330d beats it for peak torque by nearly 90lb ft, but the 335i spreads it further, so it’s astonishingly quick to respond at any speed, and revs with a glorious snarl as it homes in on the red line – fully 1500rpm higher than the 330d’s. Prepare to be blown away by the 335i’s performance. An easy sub-6.0sec to 62mph? With 30mpg economy? In a car with comfortable room for four, that you could drive across a continent and emerge from untired? Unbelievable, yet true. It’s not so long ago that acceleration figures like the 335i is capable of belonged only to junior supercars like the Porsche 911 and Ferrari 328. Okay, now tell me what it’s like to drive
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