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"When it comes to sporting dominance, the BMW 3 Series and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt are cut from the same speedy cloth.   Year after year, a new field of challengers crouches in the starting blocks, blazing with noble intent: Unseat the champion. Rip the gold off that puffed-up chest and win the love and respect of the world.   Some rivals appear to have a shot on paper. But when the real games begin and the spotlight shines brightest, the BMW and Bolt shake off even the best-prepared athletes\u2014often with such style and grace that victory seems a fait accompli.        2012 BMW 328i vs. 2013 Cadillac ATS Premium    Enter the Cadillac ATS, a car crafted almost entirely in the BMW&amp;#039;s mold. Cadillac engineers have admitted that the BMW was their almost sole target during the ATS&amp;#039;s development, a bogey they chased with such focus that the two cars&amp;#039; dimensions are nearly identical.   While each model currently offers three engine choices (including the soon-to-be-discontinued M3&amp;#039;s V-8), we pitted the 240-bhp 328i against the 272-bhp ATS Premium. Both are powered by direct-injected, twin-scroll turbo fours displacing 2.0 liters, as apples to apples as it gets.        2012 BMW 328i vs. 2013 Cadillac ATS Premium    But this game rides on more than just numbers. For both Cadillac and the American team it represents, the ATS is the first legitimate compact luxury sport sedan in history. (Yes, &amp;quot;legitimate&amp;quot; refers to the 1982\u20131988 Cadillac Cimarron, the Cavalierin-drag so embarrassingly bad that GM suits still cringe when you bring it up.) There&amp;#039;s heart here, an encouraging sense of the hometown gang finally nosing out the plot. In contrast, the 3 Series is the spoiled heir to 46 years of small-sedan development at BMW, if you clock back to both 1966 and the 1600 coupe, the latter being BMW&amp;#039;s original snack-size box of fun. The German car has been collecting trophies for decades, and justifiably so. But if Cadillac could stand some consolation, it&amp;#039;s worth recalling that BMW was once the underdog, too. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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