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Originally Posted by speed_kills  "For rest of the car, the praise is a little less gushing. As with the 135i, the 123d is a neat and tidy handler, with an ultimate tendency to understeer. |
Even the E46 M3 had an ultimate tendency to understeer and from what I gather this was a conscious decision made in order to make the cars more safe to drive.
Manufacturers of FWD-cars, on the other hand, tend to try to make their cars more fun to drive by trying to make them oversteer (see for example the, in this department, overachieving Ford S-Max) to cure the cars inherent tendency to understeer and thereby ruining the driving experience.
Edit: some clarifications