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Originally Posted by aerobod
I think it is either 6 manual gears or no manual availability. The engineering cost to have a transmission manufacturer produce or adapt a 7-speed unit for BMW would not be viable for the very low volumes across their production, likely less than 20,000 per year over all manual M-cars, or less than 1% of vehicles produced by BMW.
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I agree with this and will also add that sourcing a different transmission would have raised the price of the car. Economies of scale sharing parts across cars drives so much efficiency.