Quote Originally Posted by e34.535i.sport
After replacing ALL the suspension bushes and ball joints on my 17 year old e34 it handles a thousand times better than my 6 year old (at the time) e46 ever did! I found the e46 to be very tail-end happy in comparison to my e34 (and that had traction control!) as well.

I think this is all personal opinion however, others may see it differently?

Overall the e46 seemed like a less well made car too, things seemed to go wrong that shouldn't if you know what i mean. Seems to me that BMW peaked in the 80s/90s particularly in design... Although the e65 is outta this world.
actually as far as reliability is concerned My father ordered his brand new and within a week it had to back to the shop acouple of times for stupid little things, but on a brand new 30k bimmer it shouldn't happen. Which E46 did you have?