Recently, BMW M Power's vice president of marketing Peter Quintus said in an interview with foreign media, in view of the current automatic transmission in the automotive industry development trend, BMW that the manual and DCT dual-clutch gearbox future development prospects are not optimistic.

Manual models of consumers are mostly because of price and easy maintenance and other economic factors to buy, and such as luxury brands such as BMW, look at the Chinese market, consumers will almost completely choose to use automatic transmission models. Although there are many BMW models in the US market is to provide manual gearbox options, but the mainstream of the entire consumer is still the choice of automatic models.

In recent years, in the past, the choice of manual models dominated the European market, automatic models of sales also show a rising trend year by year. It is precisely because of these large car consumer market data, BMW admits that the future of the car and the entire automotive industry, the use of manual transmission models will be less and less, so in the future to cancel the manual file model is the general trend.

Peter Quintus believes that the current DCT dual-clutch gearbox has been able to be sought after by the major car prices, mainly due to its compact size and higher speed performance. However, with the further breakthrough in the field of automatic transmission technology, batch after batch of 9AT and even 10AT gearbox appears, DTC dual-clutch gearbox advantage is no longer obvious.

For the future of manual transmission models, the future may be to be eliminated. However, the BMW Group is not sure whether the next generation of M3 and M4 models will provide manual transmission version, after all, manual gearbox is the best way to communicate between people and drivers. More information about the new car, we will continue to focus on.