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I think BMW is asking manual enthusiasts/purists to put their money where their mouth is. They’re calling the bluff, and if there is enough uptake, it might stay. If there is no interest, it’ll fade away.

I think if the interest is there, nothing is stopping them from adding ZCP to a RWD car, and possibly AWD by LCI, but I think meeting in the middle is fair if they just did it with AWD. But the demand has to be there.

They also might have thought that those manual transmission purists wanted to stay RWD. It makes sense when you think about it, when you want the “drivers car”.