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Originally Posted by dmboone25
You might be giving BMW too much credit. 
In my humble opinion, it's cheaper and easier to deploy a single (auto) transmission across the entire brand. Could they put a revised or new DCT in the M cars? Of course...but it appears they don't want to spend the R&D to make that a reality. |
BMW collects $2,900 for each DCT and for some strange reason, DCT fanatics doesn't hesitate to pay that, at all (I wouldn't, on sheer principle).
I sincerely doubt they'll lose much or any profit by replacing it a with a
free ZF8, over any R&D cost for the DCT option.
I would say that the shift to ZF8 is writing on the wall that M cars will eventually become hybrid, some time within this next generation.
However, my point was that regardless of how you slice it, if a vehicle doesn't have a clutch pedal, IT IS NOT A MANUAL, The end.