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      08-02-2017, 07:07 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Lt1camaro View Post
No idea what BMW was thinking when it decided to ditch the DCT for the ZF8.
That decision was all about profits for BMW. There's a long thread where this was discussed at length when BMW came out and said DCT couldn't handle the torque (which of course meant the many years old DCT design they're now using, not DCTs in general as was pointed out by many other examples in that thread).
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