Well here’s a surprise, the F12/F13 BMW M6 will be receiving that all enthusiast option that more and more manufacturers are shying away from.

I reckon it was bound to happen with such an archaic bit of kit that very few people want to deal with the masochism and discomfort it offers.

That’s right folks, it’s the manual transmission. Something that’s a pain to use in traffic and something that has pretty much no new technology on it.

So what’s the point of having it? Well, there’s a long discussion here but the simple fact of the matter is that we want it.

Who’s we? It’s the remaining bastion of people who call themselves driving enthusiasts. The sort of people who understand that involvement is more important than milliseconds and comfort.

That’s the transmission that’s coming to the F12/F13 BMW M6. The report came in thanks to Car and Driver, this is the same publication that managed a special acceleration time with the F10 M5.

The announcement isn’t that big a surprise since the M6 almost certainly uses the same kind of drivetrain as the F10 M5 and therefore the swap would’ve been inevitable.

So what will it mean for the M6? Not much really, by most accounts the M6 buyers that’ll specify the manual transmission will be a rare breed.

At least they don’t have to worry about extra costs since the M6′ manual transmission will be a no cost option. After all, the kit is considerably simpler and cheaper to make than the M-DCT automatic.

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BMW’s most recent launch at Beijing, the Gran Coupe Concept is a great looking four door saloon, which may be going to jump at the Mercedes CLS market.

While this car has seen a lot of enthusiasm there are quite a few people considering that this is happening a bit late.

So it’s a new comer to market that’s been opened quite a long time ago but that’s not the full story, since BMW fans consider this to be late, they think that the lines featured on it may still have some great use. A few bored enthusiast that know their way around photographic and rendering software have created something very special.

This creation is a new take on a very loved BMW, the 6 Series.You can see the photo and general BMW 6 Series fan consensus is that this should go back to Munich to become a poster in the design studio there. If the next BMW 6 Series will look like this which let’s be honest, it’s not impossible.

Basically what BMW need to do is to take the BMW Gran Coupe Concept, take off a couple of doors, redo the lower part of the bumper to remove those awful looking LED fog lights to get something nice, simple and fluent with lighting that is as discrete as possible, that should be enough to highlight the amazing wheels.

So BMW, willing to listen and make us a 6 Series that actually gets bought for looks?

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