07/13/2025
UNPOPULAR OPINION OF THE WEEK🗣️: The DCT F87 M2 is hands down better than the manual one, no contest. Everyone wants to glaze the manual, but in this car it’s just not it. The manual locks you out of 2nd when you’re really shifting fast off a fast launch, the shifts feel vague and rubbery in a weird way, and the clutch pedal has this awkward grab point with a weird dampening feeling. It honestly feels slower than the DCT every single time. On top of that, the ratios don’t even feel made for the powertrain.
The DCT, on the other hand, feels so much more visceral. It rips off shifts with a ferocity that makes you feel like you’re riding a juiced up miniature pony on adderall. The ratios of the transmission actually match the character of the motor and overall, the car. The downshifts, the crackles, the way BRAPS on every decel and every shifts occasionally; it’s just a completely different experience and genuinely better in every way. If you’ve driven both back to back, you already know😶🌫️ Yap session over lol