Does the BMW 3 Series still deliver?

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One of my earliest motoring memories is of being shoehorned into the back of a third-generation BMW 3 Series in the mid-1990s. I was more than a decade away from getting behind the wheel myself, but the orange glow of the neatly numbered dials and buttons on the dashboard was mesmerising; the soft, cushioned, wraparound leather in the back seats comforting….