Fair play - either way works really. The reason I did it the way I did was because I was driving 100 miles on the motorway each day, and wanted something that offered a good amount of safety if I were to get into an accident, and with a 4 star N-Cap rating, weighing 1500kg, and being built like a tank, it was the perfect car really!
Had something gone wrong with it (which it did, a few times... thermostat, windscreen wiper motor arm, pas pump), I fixed it myself. Really easy cars to work on, and not as expensive as most people think.
Anyway, now I'm back to working 1.5 miles from work, I'm getting a big fat 535i Sport to replace it