Today, this would probably be an M Performance model, but it's nice to see BMW keeps ZHP in its back pocket. Okay, we admit the 530 MLE does technically have an "M" in its name, but it isn't an M ...

The 330i with the ZHP package is a generally accepted “hack” to get some proper BMW performance while staying well below M3 prices. These days, it doesn’t say, “I wanted an M3 but couldn ...