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Old 20th August 2016, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by paulrstaylor View Post
It's an eight-speed auto, believe it is a ZF-8HP box.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZF_8HP_transmission
Thanks for that Paul. The GPS anticipating downshifts will speed things up, but the big improvement over the D3 box appears to be much faster changes. One of my D3 gripes is the tardy downshifts.
That Wiki is a little in error in that BMW do fit DSG boxes to some models, and they are soooo good
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