...early leader in the clubhouse is the Lexus IS 350, with the 300hp v6.
I already told you what to do. 428i Gran Coupe. Good grief.
So, I sort of took your advice. I checked this car out, and really liked it. But, then my wife said "Hey, I want to trade in my fancy SUV for a mini van" even though she just got her fancy SUV like a year ago and prior to that always had mini-vans since birth of kids. So, she was like YOLO! (but to me), and encouraged me to go the 428 or 435 COUPE route! I suspect that she wanted to offset her mini-van. But, COUPE, can you believe it?!? I was like "holy crap!" Getting clearance, at my age, from your wife to buy a sports coupe is like nuts, man. So, I looked at them, and like them, but I just couldn't get passed how much of a pain in the ass it would be every time my kids wanted to get out of the car, when I was carrying more than one kid. I am not the primary kid drop off guy, but let's face it, I have to do that a bunch even though that isn't the plan.
Long story short, I got the 535 with AWD, cold weather package for the steering wheel heater and rear seat heaters and fancy backup camera sensor setup. Black on black. It's used (of course), but only 25K miles. I am delighted!