BMW 7-speed manual transmission design patent spotted

Ah, to own a Beemer – that is the dream car for many an aspiring yuppie, and I believe that it will continue to be so for a long time to come. After all, there is nothing quite like the feeling of shifting your gear stick in a manual transmission. It might seem as though BMW is moving towards a future with less and less manual offerings, but the latest patent spotted points toward the availability of a BMW 7-speed manual transmission design.

A patent that was filed by BMW last year pointed towards the possibility of the German company looking at a manual transmission that has 7 (or more) gears that might offer better fuel economy. BMW intends to implement this new manual transmission through the Traditional Manual Transmission (with a clutch pedal) method or through the Shift by Wire (without a clutch pedal) method.

Time will tell just which route BMW will take.

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