I have a production spread sheet that shows month-by-moth production breakdown of all BMW models - it suggests that there were 270,268 E53 models produced in total (from October 1998 until September 2006). No indication on transmission sorry.

*edit* correction - these numbers are US market only (not ROTW) and they DO include the manual transmissions - of which there was 4,356 produced.

__________________
Wayne
2005 BMW X5 3.0d (b 02/05)
2001 BMW F650GS Dakar (b 06/01)