Anyway I haven't read anything about the M3's having automatic or SMG yet, as far as I know the first ones will be manual, so I guess that is out. What do you think of a CLS 550, it aint quite AMG but still worth a look. C55 aint bad either, it's only around 55 thousand too. Still I think that's the only AMG under 70 so ehhh there is better. RS4 seems to be where it's at, even though I love BMW, go with the Audi. Actually just readin over at the AMG website they are making a new C 63, looks nice, check that out too.