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Originally Posted by hinckley
Well, I'm one of the old timers here . . . been driving BMW MTs since the 80s. This may be the final nail although I'm hoping for one last M3/4 with a MT, but I think that's now more questionable.
BMW is a business and I guess they know what's best for that business. But what they've done is release all the MT buyers to start cross-shopping other brands. We haven't been doing that in the past because BMW was the only MT game in town. Now there's even less to differentiate the brand. I figure BMW has calculated how many of these buyers they'll lose to other brands and figured offering an MT wasn't economically viable. Very sad day for us though.
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With them pulling the MT from the 3 series, I feel like a manual transmission M3/4 is becoming a more questionable.
I think I'm going to end up in a Porsche next.