4car gives BMW M6 5/5 for performance but only 3/5 for driving feel
September 21st, 2005You can read the review by following this link. Here are some excerpts:
...slightly detached dynamics…
...The SMG can be operated in normal, automatic mode, but you won’t want to do that because the shifts are slow and clumsy. The manual mode involves shifting either with the paddles mounted behind the steering wheel or the gearlever. The driver can select a shift mode that ranges from lazy and smooth, to sudden and brutal. To be honest, we couldn’t find a happy medium, mainly because this gearbox just isn’t intuitive in the way a good manual is. For us, this resulted in slightly less confidence through very high speed corners.
...remains a little remote, a little less engaging and involving than the best (for which, read Porsche). And the M6 badly needs a good manual shift.