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      10-06-2016, 11:01 PM   #222
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Originally Posted by SCOTT26 View Post
Not this time. M5 is only engineered with DCT. Manual sales did not warrant a budget for it.
Yes, exactly and identically the way it was for the E60. BMW had no intention whatsoever to make a manual car, yet they did anyway when the US grumbled.

And they only sold them in the US.


So yeah, solemn promises aside, if they deem it necessary they can always throw a 6sp at it. The technical merit of the implementation is besides the point.
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