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Originally Posted by CC 330i
trying to draw some people into explaining why they got an automatic
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Your question has already been answered numerous times in more than a couple threads.
1) More convenience especially in areas afflicted with dense traffic. There is simply less work for the driver, whether driving a manual becomes subconscious or not - there's simply less physical demands.
2) As I said earlier, less than 0.1% of BMW owners are chary enough about maintaining a perfect handling while going ridiculously fast through turns, or finical enough to always want that 0.2 second advantage over a 330i automatic user.
Those two points logically add up to the explanation why automatics heavily outsell manuals in nearly all car classes in the U.S. market.
As per the bashing, saying that an auto BMW is quite inferior and should never be compared to other cars of its same class...sounds like bashing to me. Blunt or insinuated, that's still bashing.