Looks like a beautiful car. The reason we will not see a straight 135i is what I call the Obama tax. The new fuel economy rules are extreme and penalize powerful cars with small footprings. You can read that as sports cars, even though the M235i has a back seat of sorts. For manufacturers the alternatives are to either not make these vehicles or to make them very high end in smaller quantities with more profit for unit.
This looks like hot stuff and is on my next car candidates list although that is still a bit off in the future given that my 135i is only a year old.
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