Interior

For the most part, the interior is just lovely. There was plenty of eye candy, between the leather, metallic and sparkly-swirly gray plastic trims. I was thrilled that I could comfortably step into the backseat area to help buckle my kids into their booster seats. By moving the front seats up and pushing the seatbacks forward, I had ample room to move around and never once bumped my head or experienced an awkward entrance or exit. This ease of use made me happy even in my hormonal frenzy — finally a backseat that’s easy to maneuver. The 335i that I test-drove had an added center console for the backseat. It provided many fun cubbies for my kids to store their juice-box straw wrappers in, but it eliminated the third rear seat. Fortunately for us, we never use that space anyway.

In my PMS-y state with a sore back and legs, I was elated to find that the driver and passenger seats were about as flexible as a contortionist - twisting, raising and inflating this way and that to pleasantly support any size and shape. As an added bonus, these supportive seats were well-heated. Picture yourself on your worst PMS day lounging in a recliner, clutching your most prized possession — your heating pad. The 335i offers this level of comfort for your aching mommy-bones. Ahhhh, I have to admit there were times that I sat in my driveway contemplating whether I wanted to get out of the car or not.

But you know as well as I do that nothing is perfect. This car does have some faults, including the seat belt buckles in the backseat. My kids normally buckle themselves in, but not in this ride, which is what led to me dancing around the backseat in the first place. You really have to mess with the seat belt buckles: They evade you at every push and resist clicking in until you’re about ready to go to your happy place. This is enough to annoy any person, let alone one with surging estrogen … or progesterone … or whatever the heck it is that surges.

Also, the plastic portions of the interior, including the seatbacks, scuff really easily. After one ride, my little ones managed to make a lot of scuff marks in the car. You can clean them up easily, but do you really want to be doing that every day?

Another thing that really got my goat (yep, I just said that) was that I couldn’t see the top of the speedometer when I had the steering wheel in a position I was comfortable with — 40 through 120 mph on the speedometer completely disappeared. “I’m sorry officer; I simply can’t see my speedometer. I couldn’t have been going that fast.” To avoid this conversation, I drove with the steering wheel higher than I would’ve liked.

I also found the rear window to be far too small, which made it difficult to see much with my rearview mirror. I’ll admit this is an unrealistic complaint; this is a sports car, after all, and small rear windows come with the territory.

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