I'm told that the BMW seqential manual gearbox shifts faster, but I haven't tried one. It's only available on the Z4 or M3. I may need to suck it up and test drive an M3, but then I'd be going back for more years of incompetent BMW warranty service. Oh, the pain.
Move over here to germany, BMW service is competent and reliable here...
And go for a M3 CSL, it kicks ass. (at least all the testers say that, i'm not in the situation to ever drive one myself, not even test-drive... )
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cheers, Thomas new owner of the MK1 00123 MK2 12GB 090000815 (my first one) MK2a 040103735 (from 303) and ???