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Originally Posted by Wheelwright
Thanks for correcting me regarding 911 S. But the point still stands: there are multiple companies, including BMW, where you must unfairly pay the same regardless your transmission choice. This drives manual enthusiasts away, except the most dedicated ones.
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In the past, the "normal" version was the MT and the extra hocus-pocus in production was needed to integrate the AT. So the AT costed more, also because it was not yet a commodity and therefore expensive.
Now it's the inverse, it's a lot of hocus-pocus to integrate a MT and to find one that can deal with the torque and fits in, is not obvious. Seen production number is lower, you have to ventilate all fixed costs over smaller volumes. The extra costs is now generated by keeping the MT alive.