New BMW 7-speed Manual

[Raxe]

What happens if somehow there's a short in the system and the electric module to the gearbox fries?

Same thing that happens with anything in a modern drive-by-wire BMW, you use the mechanical brakes to safely come to a stop and call a tow truck.

[XW70]

"Cannot handle" 7 gears?! BMW forced us to handle early idrive so surely we could handle one more cog. a manual without a mechanical linkage is a pointless object

[z31maniac]

Meh, if I was buying a new BMW, I'd get the DCT anyway.

Fucking brilliant transmission.

[Massimo]

"Bmw will shortly be releasing their, 'drive by mind' manual transmission. First we saved you hassle by deleting the clutch, now we've deleted the selector entirely! simply think of the gear you'd like to be in, and onboard bmw computers select that gear for you!"

Yeh its call the automatic.