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Originally Posted by coolraoul  Only in the States and few other countries I think...Because the motor is only thought to go with the SMG.... They just took the old M5 gearbox (a little adapted to the power), so... The car is far from beeing as good as the SMG-M5.
But the SMG has a terrible reliability like BMW Power said. |
It is actually the manual transmission from the 550 (and I think even the new M3 uses the same transmission). SMG had reliability issues the first year it was out, but I think it is mostly ironed out.