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Originally Posted by mkoesel
For BMW, although there has even been comments from officials that they put the MT in the M5 only as a nod to pressure from the US market, they are absolutely still committed to manual transmissions for the current generation of vehicles at least.
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I forgot to reference this yesterday in the original article. As recently as a year ago, BMW M's head of engineering Albert Biermann made this statement:
"The M3 needs to have a stick shift. It will always have a stick shift." [
full statement]
While I think the M3 may one day (in future generations) lose stick shift, if Biermann is making this statement with the F80 M3 / F82 M4 development already well underway (by the time of the statement), I'd think that's a pretty solid statement we can bank on... in addition to all the other evidence.