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DCT ordered with other options then waited for delivery | 83 | 35.62% | |
DCT from dealers lot with other options I was looking for | 35 | 15.02% | |
MT ordered with other options then waited for delivery | 73 | 31.33% | |
MT from dealers lot with other options I was looking for | 42 | 18.03% | |
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10-04-2011, 01:34 PM | #134 |
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And you be perfectly correct makes one feel the road too so much more fun.
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While that may be true, that has no bearing on the amount of fun that a manual provides over a DCT (..my opinion of course!).
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In between the Mustang and M3 was about 10 years of practicality--with no MTs. Come early 2009, I ended up with a little extra money to spend, so I pulled the trigger on the M3 6MT and bought the extended warranty the same day. Plan to keep it a long time, God willing. It doesn't hurt that my wife can't drive a stick. She has a knack for making a new car look ten years old in about a week! JB |
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I drove many other cars all automatic then in 2004 I tasted the //m3 for the first time and was hooked what can I say. A fine piece of engineering it is as is our now e92 and I think it is a keeper.
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My parents have a 15-year old (approximately) 528. When they were shopping for a new car at the time, they were looking at Cadillac, Buick, Lexus, Acura, etc., and I told them they should look at a BMW. Being the Baby-Boomers they are, the idea of a BMW was a bit novel to them. One test drive was all it took. I got to drive it a bit later on the West Virginia Turnpike--bumpy, curvy mountain interstate--and was immediately impressed by the night and day difference between it and the various Cadillacs, Buicks, Chevrolets, and Oldsmobiles I had grown up with. The BMW was on rails, even over chatter bumps! Naturally, then, my mind went to BMW when I had my own chance in 2009. I'd like to think I could give my M3 to my 2-year-old son when he graduates from high school. I'm a little concerned about the upkeep of the convertible top mechanism, but so far it's flawless. JB |
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Mind you I did a lot of my own maintenance on the e28 and treated the car with kid gloves. So naturally it is in great shape. When my daughter finished her first 4 years at the university I wanted to get her a new 3 series and all she said was "Please dad can I have your 528is instead" and naturally she got it and I got myself the e46. Now we are restoring the e28 completely, new front fenders, complete paint job with original factory ordered paint, some minor maintenance she never plans to sell it. It is just that great a car.
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