Thread: New BMW 7-series will come with 8-speed transmission
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Old 02-12-2007, 05:02 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Re: New BMW 7-series will come with 8-speed transmission
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Originally Posted by EnI View Post
The gearbox is still in testing. General development is done, now BMW engineers are tweaking the gearbox to fit BMW driving dynamics. I will come sooner than you think.

335si will definitely get it. Latest info is the car will debut after M3, not before it. Also due longer-than-planned DCT tests.

And yes, F01/02 7er will debut a new automatic transmission. But will it really have 8 gears? Khmmmm Do you realy think 8 is a right number?
No, I think 7 is more like it because it really doesn't make sense to have more than 7 foward gears in a modern car's automatic transmission.
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