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BMW needs to continue to offer the MT in their cars. It's slowly going away though.
Showrooms don't have them laying around because the only people who would buy them get irritated that it has "X" package on it too and blah blah blah. So that car sits on the lot for a year. MT buyers will only want MT. and they ONLY want certain options. If you want MT in a BMW - prepare to order it and wait on it.
I have a client who wants a MT 650i, but they discontinued them. You used to be able to get a 6MT in the 550i, but now you can only get it in the 535. So tell a person on a 550i budget to jump $30K to a M5 - it doesn't work.
It's still found in the core models thankfully, but how much longer is anyone's guess.
But there are cars I'd prefer the auto-manual in. The BMW just isn't one of them.
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