[razman]

Originally Posted by xlover

It's worth calling out that this isn't fact yet, it's mostly conjecture. Even our resident insider has said bmw is evaluating multiple combinations with manual including awd and have not fully finalized yet.

Although it makes some sense that the manual will be limited to only the purist version it's not confirmed to be the case yet.

This was one rumor that the troll brigade picked up on and basically got repeated so many times it is now considered fact. Unless there is new information I personally am not going to judge why it's tied to a particular model until I know the facts.

Ok, good to know.