The BMW 125i can deliver some pretty decent thrills and with a lot more involvement than even the brilliant (and slightly cheaper) Golf GTI or the similarly-priced Audi S3 can manage. The Mercedes A250 4MATIC can't even get close on the fun front. While still no looker, the 125i is now anonymous rather than plain ugly but it's the efforts of Munich's finest engineers that have made this hottish-hatch even better.