It’s amazing how things have changed. It wasn’t many year ago when the manual always had the best performance and an automatic option always meant a slower car with worse fuel economy.
I agree, although the ZF 8HP gearbox is a tough act to follow, turning the trend of quicker dual clutch auto's trans back to torque converters. Nevertheless I guess we both know how slick it is having driven the Plus Six.
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The case for the new manual Plus Four's performance is seemingly engineered though. Less torque hence worse performance, slightly worse fuel economy and higher CO
2 emissions just don't stack up. At least it's cheaper than the auto version though.
On a side note, interesting that BMW can swap out the torque converter for an electric drive as easy adaption for hybrid cars.
