{"id":25902,"date":"2022-06-28T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/?p=25902"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:38:35","slug":"bmw-m-vows-to-keep-manual-gearboxes-alive-for-the-foreseeable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/2022\/06\/28\/bmw-m-vows-to-keep-manual-gearboxes-alive-for-the-foreseeable-future\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW M Vows to Keep Manual Gearboxes Alive For the Foreseeable Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/684ec62509c5a60e173934e999e6aa24.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/684ec62509c5a60e173934e999e6aa24.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2ad7bf24d8fd1359647226360435b494.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the automotive industry continues to shift toward electrification and more technologically advanced vehicles, the days of manual transmissions have long seemed numbered, but now BMW M boss Frank van Meel has expressed his desire to keep the gearbox option alive for driving enthusiasts. Speaking to Autocar, the executive explained that almost 50% of all M2 sales opt for manual gearboxes and that fans of the brand love the option because it gives them a bigger sense of control over the car, despite the transmission making little technical sense to produce given modern technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom a technical viewpoint, there\u2019s little reason to save it,\u201d van Meel says. \u201cIt\u2019s heavier, it\u2019s slower and you get worse fuel consumption than the alternative. But the customer and the fanbase really love the manual. It gives a connection to allow them to demonstrate they can tame the beast \u2013 and that\u2019s the point. We want to keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added: \u201cPeople want to say they can handle the beast. If they have a way of showing they can do that, then they want it \u2013 and a manual gearbox is part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the automotive industry continues to shift toward electrification and more technologically advanced vehicles, the days of manual transmissions have long seemed numbered, but now BMW M boss Frank van Meel has expressed his desire to keep the gearbox option alive for driving enthusiasts. Speaking to Autocar, the executive explained that almost 50% of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-25902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car","tag-bmw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25904,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25902\/revisions\/25904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}