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I think you mean RHD, otherwise remind me to avoid you on the roads ;)

Agreed but it just feels a bit odd to have a road car setup and motorbike/race car setup the opposite way around. Hardly as big a deal as Hyundais having the indicators on the right and wipers on the left though!

I agree, the only times you ever push forward (without going through an horizontal gate) is to change down

I think the pull back to change down is a bit of a safety feature as it takes a more determined effort to pull back. Banging down 5 gears while braking doesn't work anything like as well IMHO. It would be so simple to make it user defineable, after all it is just a switch.

Have you ridden a motorbike or driven a race car with a sequential box? When hard on the brakes and you are being pushed forward it is counter intuitive to be pulling back on a lever or pushing up with your foot - you go with the movement - at least that is how my brain works :)

To convince myself I was such a driving enthusiast I wouldn't miss an S-tronic or similar I specced my current car as a manual. My next car will be an S-tronic or similar...

I thought I would use the stick like a sequential manual on my 8P but found the paddles to be immersive enough and didn't care that the stick shift wasn't great.

The paddles work fine. The lever can be shifted manually but 1/ is a rather nasty squishy thing and 2/ is wired like most other road cars the wrong way around from a sequential shifter in a race car. It is intuitive to push forward to change down under hard braking which is why race cars have...

140 bhp Common Rail 2.0 TDI

I owned an Alfa 33 for several years, hardly the prettiest Alfa and my family never liked its looks, yet I loved the car because it was the last of the boxer engines and it had loads of character in spite of not being a looker. The one series is the last generation of the small BMW RWD hot hatch...

Meat & poison and all that. I felt a little detached sitting in the S3 after the M135i, the latter I felt a little more at one in. I am only 5ft 9 though. It just felt a better fit but I do like smaller cars I guess. The first generation was too cramped in the back for the family, the new one...

Best not to wait too long ;) Scotland to ban petrol and diesel cars

Wow, lots of S3 test reports due in!

Given the OPs A3 spec was a 2.0TDi I doubt he is looking at an M135i but a highly specced diesel 1 series. For me it comes down to preference for the package - I wouldn't get the 1 series if it was a second choice over the A3 and vice versa for the sake of waiting some more weeks. However, the...

"automatic seven speed" tut tut...

My 320d could hardly ever be called a handful in the wet but then again my recollection of the RWD cars I owned a couple of decades ago is without traction control and skinny budget tyres which needed some throttle control. I can pretty much floor the 320d and let the traction control give me a...

It has an electromechanical sound actuator whatever that is!

Having driven a M135i today and sat in the S3 (couldn't drive it today) this clearly isn't as comprehensive as Paul's comparison but nonetheless I did form an opinion (and not the one I expected) Surprisingly I warmed more to the M135i interior than the S3 in the flesh than I had comparing...

I have keyless access with my BMW. The advantages are you don't have to ever get keys out of pocket or handbag. My wife can open the passenger door with her keys in her handbag without me having unlocked the car. No keys jangling in the ignition switch. Just use the handle to open the car and...

A friend of mine scuffed a 19" alloy on a nearly new Ford and the dealer's standard repair charge was £50 which didn't seem too bad.