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      10-29-2018, 04:13 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by AMOR View Post
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts on this matter. I guess i’ll need to test drive it somehow to get a feeling, but not easy to find a dealer that gives out these cars for test drive. The perfect transmission for me is still a manual and it is the best choice for a weekend fun car which an M car should be. But if it’s a daily and in modern traffic reality we have to make compromise, so I guess on this M5 the compromise is even more towards the comfort, rather than a hard shifting race car as E60 M5 used to be. The best automatic I have driven was a 911 GT3 with a PDK, but it does not have 4 doors and seats with massage of course. 😆
Just saying that this F90 is a monster of acceleration. DCT or not, it's fast as heck! Even if DCT would be a tad quicker, it would probably not be more than a dozen millionths of a second.

Also, the more crazy powerful cars like the Koenigsegg now come with torque converters, as no clutch system is able to handle 1000 lbft of torque. So one dares to say that the old TC is the future of automatic sport shifting.
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