how about 335i?

Maybe some ppl drive on highway alot, but I think for those that mostly do city drives, 220nm at revs between 1k to 3k is more than enough.

220nm is enough to push the car up genting comfortably with revs around 2k - 3k rpm. For cars with N/A 2.4 with 230nm, you'll probably be screaming at 4k+ rpm all the way up

220nm torque is sufficient for city driving, between 0 to 80km/h
once you hit the highway, power matters especially if you want to accelerate from 80 to beyond 100km/h, over taking lorry and slow moving cars. You will feel that you need to work a lot on the engine to move the car just a little bit faster when power to weight ratio is insufficient. For 2.4NA, the power that helps to sustain high speed.

If you look at some of the drag race (of course I am not promoting to drag race) between a Turbo car (high torque, lower power) and an NA car (lower torque, high power), Turbo cars always start off quicker but at high speed, the NA with higher power will over take.