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      11-29-2018, 06:06 PM   #1
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BMW Boss Promises a Manual Transmission in the G82 M4

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"I think M4 should be the fortress of manual," Klaus Fröhlich, head of the board of development for BMW, told Road & Track.
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“Honestly, the pure engineering answer is, you’re much faster with paddles and an automatic transmission,” Fröhlich told R&T. “They’re very precise and sporty. Especially on the Nurburgring, you are much better in control when you’re not taking one hand away [to shift]. I think, in the overall portfolio, manuals will disappear. But I think M4 should be the fortress of manual. So the last manual transmission which will die, it should die in an M4, as late as possible. That’s my view.”

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“I think it should survive in the next generation of M4. The successors [meaning the next M3 and M4] are all in the pipeline. And so my promise is, yes, there will be a manual in the successor to M4.”
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