Very happy with the automatic gearbox on my Plus Four. BMW really know how to make modern performance gearboxes. Shifting is incredibly fast and it has 8 gears. One flip of the lever and it goes into sport mode, which sustains higher gear ratios - I have it in that mode almost all the time I’m out of towns and villages.
90% of the time it gets the change absolutely right. 8% of the time it is not too bad and still probably better than I might do. 2% of the time, especially in sport mode, it hangs on to a higher gear than necessary for too long and makes a lot of noise.
And of course you have the flappy-paddles if you want to select gears manually.
