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The Merc is dead boring plain and simple. My dad has a company E240 which has served him well for more than 5 years. He paid RM420k for it back in thoooose days. One day, I had a courtesy E60 530i over for the weekend and my dad took it for a spin. The sheer thrills and how well it drove with tonnes of useful specs like sat nav, heads up display made a world of difference. Yes, you get GPS Sat Nav with the i-Drive in the 323i. You get squat in a C200k. Then, there's a true blue 6-potter to provide quality refinement over a what? 1,800 c.c. 4-pot with a bolt on supercharger. Yeah, Honda Civic VTEC engines are probably more advanced man. So, to me, the better car is obviously the 323i. I've been driving one albeit in E92 spec for 2 years now and never had a problem. The engine top-up issue doesn't afflict everyone and won't be a problem anymore now that BMW is revising the service schedule. I thot I said this already?!