The long version

Buyers choosing the manual here are turning down a genuinely quicker dual-clutch option to get a pedal BMW says it will not offer much longer, which filters for exactly the kind of owner who is going to use it rather than bank it. Values have fallen in a straightforward line since launch, nothing like the speculative curve JDM icons or homologation specials get elsewhere in this index, which is itself the evidence: a car people actually drive depreciates like a normal car. No badges attach because it does not do anything extreme; it is simply the last of a lineage doing what BMWs in this lineage have always done, unglamorously and often.