BMW M235i
Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars involves more than drawing up lists of our sub-$80,000 favorites. Every year the editors enter weeklong evaluation looking for new and improved combinations of virtues: value and engagement, performance and poise, sights and sounds, soul and character.
The cars that earn Car and Driver's award do more than merely succeed on one or two criteria; they come to us fully formed, polished, complete.