I have had two G80's now and that says alot; my latest is the X drive and I can say with no doubt that it drives incredibly well from steering, to dampening, to chassis reflex. While the review above was about the G82- I like the G80 lines more.
xmanpro can probably chime in too as he has both the 8 and the 3 in M variants.
I dont care if, out of the box, its not as fast as the F9X variants as a simple piggy has the car in the 10's and there are now cars in the 9's (I just do a piggy) . But the car is just frankly- more fun and I have had the F90 and have the F93 M8 now so this is not some owner bias bull shit.