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Originally Posted by SlickGT1
I am sure that once you do this for the N62, others with the 4.8 and the 4.4 will do the conversion. If people are spending $3k on a rebuilt transmission when the auto dies, as long as your swap is better priced, people will switch to the manual. I guarantee you this.
Now factor in the fact that there are millions of these cars on the roads. They are getting cheaper, and the fact that the n62 is the V8 of choice in a lot of models.
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I disagree. The reason that auto manufacturers are discontinuing manual transmission versions of their vehicles is simply because nobody is buying them. There will always be a core of enthusiasts who want a manual transmission, but relative to all the vehicles sold, the numbers are tiny. When I special ordered a manual transmission X3, my dealer hadn't seen one.
When something like 99% of automatics fail, switching to a manual transmission will not be a consideration. It is still a neat concept for those that do want it.
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