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A45 is a hot hatch, as cool as they look. 

Mustang I imagine would be depreciation city. 

The more I look the more I see why the 35 is such a big deal. There's basically nothing in that price bracket that can match it performance wise and it's still apparently semi comfy. 

I'm not too familiar with the cars you have listed, however, I can tell you that BMW M cars are brilliant. They cost an absolute fortune to maintain though. I had an E60 M5 previously, it was the best car i've ever driven. It also was broken about a third of the time and cost almost 20k in repairs over 2.5 years. I still miss it...

We also have an E61 wagon, which since purchase (12 months ago) has only needed oil (they all need oil). People tend to assume that all Euros are the same, but the non-sports car models are pretty reliable in my opinion.

I looked at an A5 for my daily at one point, it felt well built, solid and like something i might like to drive but, In the end I spent a lot less and put the extra money into my fun car fund. I certainly was nice and quiet.

Broken all the time, cost 20k in repairs, still loved it. Are you sure it wasn't a GT-R :D

Having a hard time finding good info on what "needs" to be done to an earlier 35 trans to protect it. 

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