Insurance companies don’t make up their rates out of whole cloth. They use highly researched optomiziation equations to figure out what they need to charge based on several factors in order to make money. I seriously doubt that by 2040, anyone left driving a non-autonomous car will be any riskier than anyone else,…

An M3 is 3600 pounds. It’s just fine. We are not going back to the days of stripped out tin cans with no crumple zones or airbags, no matter how much you people scream about it. You are literally 1% of 1% of the market.

None of them seem to have any problems so far...the ZF 8 speed has been hauling super-heavy, super-powerful AWD cars around for a while and I’ve never heard of an issue. In general planetary autos are pretty bulletproof these days. Not much to go wrong internally apart from the valve bodies, but those are close to…

Learn to enjoy cars with non-manual gearboxes. A gearbox is only a tiny part of what defines a good car, especially now that all of them are pretty damn good. Sucks that manuals are going away, but really what will be more disappointing is the loss of internal combustion engines.

I drive an SMG M5 and I absolutely promise that I have just as much as you.

It’s only a shitshow for the same reasons Apple article comments are a shitshow - insecure, angry, immature & unreasonable manual transmission guys (Android users) feel the need to spout off and make insane, insulting statements trying to rile up those who actually have the good sense to appreciate good…

No, absolutely not...they’ve used ZF autos for a very long time...not sure where you’re getting that from....

Another guy who doesn’t get it, and by not getting it will contribute to the death of the enthusiast car he wants so badly.

Yes, yes they are. They removed the option for the final model year became they literally sold a handful the previous year, but they were available every year until now.

They’ve used the same gearbox for 3 M5s in a row now...even in the E60 you can find countless examples of the gearbox overheating during track days or spirited driving in warm weather. They probably improved the cooling for the F10 implementation, but I have no doubt that in the long run you will see reliability…

He made an accurate observation about all the pissy whining on here about manual gearboxes. Why are you so offended.

Dude, again...you and everyone else continue to not get it, and that’s why the manual was always doomed. No. One. Buys. Them. It’s not because the bosses of AMG and M really want to force faster shifts down your throat (and by the way, it’s not an extra 15 milliseconds, a DCT will shift about 20 times faster than a…

Well, they do. To have the sort of clutch-and-stick feel BMW is known for, you need a gearbox that isn’t designed to handle agricultural levels of torque. Sure, they could have a Viper gearbox in there, and it would feel...out of place. Also...once again...no one buys them. And, they’re moving to AWD...which makes…

...it’s not about the shift time. It’s about convenience and fuel economy. And about sales. No one buys them. At all. Stop acting like they’re denying this massive swath of buyers a choice, that group doesn’t exist anymore.

Hey guy, no one buys them. There’s nothing to give up - the cars are too powerful for the shift feel they want, and no one buys the ones they have now. What the hell do you want them to do? All you people driving old shitbox hatchbacks sure as hell aren’t impacting their bottom lines.

Constantly putting a cramp in my leg isn’t “interesting” - stop with the idiocy. My car is interesting enough, it doesn’t need a clutch pedal to be so. I suppose if you drive an econo-hatch, sure, I suppose you need all the help you can get.

I love a good gearbox...no matter what it is. I’ve driven shit manuals that were no fun, and of course plenty of trash autos.

“Republicans”

I wouldn’t admit that on a public forum....

Cameras are pretty good these days, anyone with a decent lens should follow her around and take photo and video of her in the act showing her face. Open and shut.