Z4M is no doubt the "best" car but you may find the 3.0si perfectly adequate as well. It depends a lot on the kind of driving you do IMO. Have you driven both?
I had a lot of fun with the 3.0si. The gas mileage was great and it had plenty of torque down low for around town driving. The transmission also seemed a little less notchy than the M one, but that might have been the particular example I got. Passing power on the highway was always more than adequate in pretty much any gear.
The M is a car that's most at home on the track. It's a car that you really need to take close to redline on a regular basis to appreciate.
And definitely, a manual transmission regardless of which car you get.
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