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Originally Posted by SYT_Shadow
One time a BMW engineer was asked why they have trouble sourcing 6MTs that take lots of torque when american cars have manuals in things like the Viper. The engineer politely said they had indeed tested them but they were not up to snuff.
So for them to use a manual that's coming out in a car that's a $50k cowboy hat, not even a sports car, is really hard to believe
Besides, they made improvements in the 6MT of the F8X, it had low enough friction to not require dedicated cooling. Why not amortize that through one more gen?
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Has a German automaker ever used a Tremec transmission? Tremec makes transmissions that can handle a lot of power/torque for domestics but they are hit and miss and not the smoothest. The TR-6060 is probably just not refined enough for BMW as Charger and Camaro owners have lots of complaints.