2012 BMW 335i

Of the entire cars Top Gear host Richard Hammond has ridden - and that's a lot of cars - "Perhaps the best car of all time." It is an oil-burning entry-level luxury sedan, which has earned the ovation, he refers to the 2013 BMW 320d in an article in Spiegel British newspaper, further lending to the "brilliant design", an easy-to-use infotainment system "precise control" and use "go to one of the best three of them in decades."

His conclusion comes from a lack of negatives as much as the positive. But even if it is still a huge call, we are full of our own ultimate praise for petrol BMW four-pot, the 328i, which is a faster action sprint to 60 mph for a couple of mpg less than the 320d of 52 mpg imperial (43 U.S. mpg). Hammond is a fan of the styling, and in fact the only thing he does not look like a stripe on the 3-Series tester.