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      10-09-2019, 02:43 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by kyrix1st View Post
It’s a near 200K car that offers marginally better performance than 120K M5. No surprise it didn’t get stellar reviews.

They still would have had a hard time selling this even under perfect circumstances where CFRP driveshaft/body parts/DCT/latest hybrid technology are used yet the hardware is identical to the M5. That ZF gearbox is a major reason why the car feels like a slightly modified M850i, which every reviewer mentions.

Maybe the majority of customers nowadays are generous enough to buy a supposedly halo car that is hardly different from its base model.
But isn't m5 with the same gearbox, I mean no DCT in either of the cars.
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