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Originally Posted by 911r
Wow, so 3135/5867 of E90 M3s are 6MT? Making DCT rarer? That's a surprise.
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For the E90 M3 in total (all model years included together), yes that's the case. It's flipped around for the E92 at only 6235 6MT out of total import of 15,799 cars.
However, for the E90 though there's a strong distribution shift for pre/post LCI so the 6MT cars are much rarer in the LCI years due to the late introduction of the DCT in 2008 model year E90 cars which essentially all are 6MT. I think the main reason was all the E90 launch cars BMW built solely with 6MT (i.e. the 2008 model year E92 is near even split 6MT/DCT).
6MT/DCT data:
pre LCI 2080/200
post LCI 1055/2532
Hence if one is shopping for an LCI 6MT E90 M3, your odds of any given car being a DCT are 2.4 times greater than it being a 6MT.
In the first post
in this thread there is a pdf link with all this data and more.
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