The base of BMW's mighty 3

Singapore

SO THERE you are, clinging to the wobbly middle of the corporate ladder with your director's fleshy bottom obscuring your view of the top, and underlings snapping at your heels.

For someone like you, the BMW 320i is just the car. It's reasonably plush and has the thrusting looks that signal your ambition to go places, yet it stops just short of the ostentation that might ruffle the feathers of those above you, or indeed, those below.