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Originally Posted by ksak
Instead, we have old farts with porches buying the 1m as a "winter" car and dealers trying to get 30k+ markup.
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It is definitely an interesting optioning experiment for BMW.
Had they also offered DCT, I would assume the majority of cars would be ordered that way (just like the current M3). However, people are still hunting down this car with "only" 6MT and a limited color palette.
I feel like they thought limiting it to 6MT and a few colors would push a bunch of potential buyers over to the M3 - sort of a teaser that gets you interested in buying ///M, but you settle for the up-sell to M3 to get a car immediately with the paint and options you want.