[Keyser Soze]

Love love love the manual 5-speed in my 3,200 lb E46 330i, mostly because it adds a great deal to the driving experience (plus the steps of that era were failure prone and slow.)

However, I do absolutely find the manual 6-speed in my 4,065 lb F10 535 really worthless, to be honest, and wouldn't order it with one again. It's time has passed and It adds nothing, 1st gear is annoyingly short tugging this beast, and I get 18.3 mpg stomping around in 3rd gear most of the time. Oh, and since you can't actually hear the damn engine it's hard to rev match and drive it smoothly. Now I didn't buy this car thinking I'd get 28 mpg but 18 is sort of crappy. Plus with idrive it's a race to either keep fiddling with stuff at a stoplight or put it into gear and chugg off. 5 series isn't a sports sedan in the classic sense anymore it's more of a smaller 7 although 550 is a damn good dragster and M5 is another beast altogether.