 After a decade of buying BMW 3 Series, I made a major mistake with an end-of- year lease of a C300.  This car is "sport" in name only!  (Well, okay, it _looks_ sporty too, but that's as far as it goes.)  What a joke--the only way you can maintain any cornering grip is by bracing yourself against the door or the console.  Steering and other controls: a mess.  It's very easy to see why BMW outsells this poser.  I got it on a lark after I found that the latest BMW's have no place to plug in a Valentine 1 radar detector, and I found out they were giving the MBZ's away: $770 to start; $444/month (3 years).  NOW I know why it was so cheap....  Please learn from me: do NOT buy this car!