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Originally Posted by HighlandPete
And BMW had the nerve to fit diesel engines into their sedans! Abomination! Oh, and they added xDrive, sacrilege!
I wonder where BMW would be today without some of the M-sport marketing, SUVs and diesel power. I suggest niche market at best, out of business at worst.
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They seemed to do pretty well as a manufacturer of sports sedans. If you wanted a BMW SUV, you bought a Touring, and OMG it was available with a manual transmission! The E30 had all-wheel-drive (available with a manual transmission), which was dropped from the E36 even though the E36 really wasn't a major chassis change from the E30.
Not sure about the diesel comment
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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."