Absolutely.

The 328i sport is an M3 wannabe. I've driven a late 90's model M3 when I was shopping around a few years ago. Nice car but didn't have the handling of the STi and the grunt was lacking that rocket under your seat factor. The Subaru takes a bit of getting used to, especially after rear or front wheel drive cars. You almost think its going to understeer going into the corner when you lift the power but accelerate through the corner and it seems to suck back as though its on rails. Extremely stable when cornering at high speed under power and very predictable.

I guess its what you get used to. Most affordable rear wheel drives tend to feel a bit twitchy under cornering and I know I can trust the Subaru in the wet.

My only real complaint is that the balance of the car is front end heavy and the feedback about what the car is doing or about to do isn't as tactile as others, I blame the 4wd which does take a bit of the fun out of it. Because of the balance of the car its quite easy to brake and just continue on, so it understeers with heavy breaking but under power hugs the road perfectly.

Its nice to be able to really use these cars as they were meant. Track days are great fun and a real eye opener. Public roads aren't really the place to act daft because things can very quickly go very, very wrong. A bit of common sense and you can still have a little fun though.

Just returning the favour