BMW M3 CSL Manual

[ian-909]

Autocar drives a manual E46 M3 CSL:

https://youtu.be/BRm_soPGdgA

[318 iS Cosmos]

I follow the owner on Instagram - I think there's 140k miles on this one.

[Ketron]

Savage addition, love the fact he is enjoying and not caring about resale.

[ian-909]

Seems mad now that manual wasn’t a factory option on the CSL.

[CitizenKane]

Fair play to him. Although some of the stuff the owner said I found a bit odd.

“I’m doing everything now, I don’t have to wait for a gearbox to decide what it’s doing next”.

That would make sense if you were describing an actual normal automatic gearbox, but SMG?

[318 iS Cosmos]

Fair play to him. Although some of the stuff the owner said I found a bit odd.

“I’m doing everything now, I don’t have to wait for a gearbox to decide what it’s doing next”.

That would make sense if you were describing an actual normal automatic gearbox, but SMG?

I do see where he is coming from. At low speeds, it can be a bit annoying at times. For example, on my parents road, I used to leave my old M in 3rd but in my dads SMG, it switches down to second and won't let you change up unless you accelerate a bit. Just small niggles like this.