I traded in my FBO/Tuned 2008 E90 M3 for this car. Most people I tell that to think I'm crazy, what I think was crazy was spending over $12K CAD on that car just on maintenance and repairs in a 12 month period. I have no complaints with the N! lol.
And no, I didn't trade it in with any of the mods I had on it, I stripped everything I could off of it haha.
Hello. I made the same change as you and lots of people said me I was insane too. I miss my ex ///M3 E90 but I love my new i30N Performance. The ///M3 E9X has a terrible fuel consumption and so much endemic problems (bad rod bearings, bad throttle actuators, oil comsumption,...) I enjoyed it for 15 months. It was a good car and a great experience.