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Originally Posted by kyleb350
Is it really a different version of the engine if all that's changed is the redline? I guess if you get into the nitty gritty...
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If you look at my second post in this thread, I elaborated more.
The point is, it costs more to develop and produce two different things - especially complex things like engines - than it does one thing. Even small differences (including software differences - if in fact that's all it would be which, as I say, is speculative) add cost, so the more commonality, the easier it is to make the business case. You have to remember that there are probably no shortage of board members or shareholders who would have preferred to see the manual transmission disappear entirely. Why tempt fate by getting fancy and trying to diverge from the what's already being developed for the volume model?