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The term for your friends is "Roundel-hound" (e.g. Roundelhound). Definition (1) - buyer of a BMW just because of the Roundel badge on the hood, which then leads to such abhorrent behavior of re-badging their car to something it is not. (2) - buyer of a BMW (especially an SUV or "SAV" - BMW's term for SUV) just because of the Roundel on the hood, so as to impress their neighbors, and who have no appreciation of BMW's heritage as producer of magnificent small sports sedans (generally recognized as starting with the 2002 in the late 1960's). (3) - A Poser. (4) BMW corporation itself that has recently forgotten that their heritage is building small sports sedans (i.e. does not even now offer a manual transmission in the G20 3-Series for the North American market)...
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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