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Originally Posted by Brosef
Interesting point about DCT becoming standard and 6MT being a N/C option. That very well may be the case, but if that's true, I think your estimates are each at least $3k low, since that would represent a very modest price increase. will be interesting to see where the pricing comes in.
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It's definitely a speculation on my part, but if you look at the all the recent M and non-M cars, the trend is that the base price includes the AT/DCT (3/4/5/6-series, M5/M6, etc.), and if you exclude the outgoing e9x and e82/e88, all BMW models come with the AT/DCT as standard.
The price jump is also (obviously) speculative, but if you look at the M5 (e60 vs f10), the price jump was modest at around $5k ($85k vs. $90k), and the price jump also included the DCT as standard in the f10 M5. I think the jump from e9x to f8x will be slightly larger (hence my guesstimate) due to more weight reduction achieved with light weight materials.