# BMW to come out with a few more M models... And they're diesel.

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [January 26, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bmw-to-come-out-with-a-few-more-m-models-and-theyre-diesel/262465 "2012-01-26T14:12:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bmw-to-come-out-with-a-few-more-m-models-and-theyre-diesel/262465/16 "2012-01-28T11:47:17Z")

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> [@By far the coolest thing I've hauled around so far](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/by-far-the-coolest-thing-ive-hauled-around-so-far/48091/45):
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> retarded statement is retarded ^
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> there’s no automatic m’s in e46 body style … maybe your referring to smg which is cool and all but i have a 6 spd vert m3 and a 6pd m5
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> lol is on you

At the end of the day, your M3 is still a convertible. Racing heritage? Who are you to mock BMWs marketing and sales team when you fell for it and bought a convertible M3?

SMG is automatic, whether you like to think it is or not.  
“BMW offered a system simply called “sequential manual gearbox” (SMG) on the E36 M3, and later “SMG-II” on the E46 M3. The BMW SMG transmission has **both automatic and manual shift modes**. Inside the different modes there are different programmes, with six settings to control the upshift/downshift speed for manual operation, and five settings for automatic mode.”

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