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Originally Posted by dmboone25
You might be giving BMW too much credit. 
In my humble opinion, it's cheaper and easier to deploy a single (auto) transmission across the entire brand. Could they put a revised or new DCT in the M cars? Of course...but it appears they don't want to spend the R&D to make that a reality. |
Dmboone is right as the decision to do away with DCT is due to cost savings and not because ZF8 is just as good. One less automatic, less cost. Not good for quality of new M cars.