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BMW lost its way a while back with the F30 and FWD 1-Series. It's rumored the next 3-series will not be available with a manual transmission.
What I don't get is as far as automotive corporate size BMW ranks around 13th IIRC, yet it is considered one of the most, if not the most profitable car company in the world. But it has to team with Toyota on the next gen Z4/Z5 and with a Chinese company to develop the next Mini?
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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