I currently drive an 09 335i and im actually in the process of selling it to get myself into a z possibly a new nismo if eveything works out as planned. I'm assuming you'd be buying preowned if your looking at 335i's since the 09's are in the low 30's and im guessing the genesis is worth close to that range but anyway without sounding like a run on sentence i'd just like give you my 2 cents, the 335i is my daily driver and it was a nice experience at first but it gets so dreadfully boring after dd it for so long, had a hard time finding a stick with the right options, mine is fully loaded so I had to settle for the msport package paddle shifters, that being said its really really really boring and the maintenance on this car is crazy it's in every month since i've owned it for one of bmw's recall notices (thank god it's under factory warranty still because the invoices are shocking), anyway this is 100% my opinion based on my experience with the car I don't wanna scare you but I thought i'd share my experience. As many would agree you can't beat the reliability of a japanese car, also 99% of my car's problems have been with the cars electric system which bmw is known for. The major problems I had were the ecu and other components of the electrical system failing ranging from the idrive system (which blows in my opinion), to the engine malfunction warning on 5 times in the last year because the fuel pump went twice another issue the n54 engine is known for. Not to mention its about $80 every 5 days to fill up were I live.
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