I have had a fiesta RST (for about 18 years now) and got my BMW 330d in 06 (e46 facelift) you can get one quite cheaply now and mine is still going stron with 144k on the clock. it is a 4 door saloon and I love it! It is not how ever like the the fiesta! I feel like a youngter again every time I get into it.... The BMW is much more refined and is absolutely fantastic for long motorway drives (I comited from Salford to London (223 miles) each way weekly and cossets you espeshally if you are tired (the DSC has saved me and my familys lifes at least once when other rad users have tried to kill us thorough their stupidaty! Oh and boy does it go. I have had it upto 150 on a runway once (radar tracked). The M sport suspention is good, I go to costco for my tryes (mitchalin sport3) and they work well the the car.

You have to shop around for OEM parts as BMW ones are expensive and some of the pattern ones are crap. The car is on its 3rd set of front lower suspetion arm bushes, the fuel pump will go about a 100k, but that about it! since I got it, it has done 38mpg on average and does more than 45mpg on a motorway unless you are a hooligan!