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Originally Posted by mofomat
But surely you are limited to six forward gears and one reverse? The gear lever should sit in the middle of the gate, pull towards and up or down for first and second, push away up and down for fifth and sixth. How would it be possible to make it an intuitive change into 7th? How would you change into 7th?
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Why couldn't it rest in neutral in the dead center of the gate? I'ts been years since I drove a 4-speed (and I never drove a 3 speed) but I'm fairly certain that's how they were set up.
If are talking about the actually shift pattern of BMW's 7 speed used with the SMG setup in the M5/M6, then yes I am aware that those transmission would have a strange pattern if shifted manually. Something like this if I recall (though I am going purely from memory):
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 R
But there's no reason that they could not build a 7 speed transmission with a normal shift pattern if they wanted it to be shifted manually.