After more than a year, our tenure with the BMW 335i Sport project car is about to end, but we couldn't let it fade into obscurity, deciding instead to send it out in a blaze of glory. Or so we hoped.

This is the life: a sunny morning, an appointment in Milton Keynes some 60 miles away, and quiet A-roads ahead of me. The perfect opportunity to reflect on the 335i M Sport convertible, which today ...

"I think the problem here is that we've got three second-place cars," I said to my colleagues Scott Evans and Mike Febbo as we sat down to a late lunch after a day of hard driving. The task at hand ...