The needle in the haystack

[Dimachi]

Hi ,why are literally 0 f10528 i se 3.0 petrol.6 speed manual for sale ?

[DorsetSparky]

Dimachi said:

Hi ,why are literally 0 f10528 i se 3.0 petrol.6 speed manual for sale ?

Erm....

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202305067...

EDIT: that's a 2.0 petrol seemingly. Probably because that'd be an odd car to spec with a manual box and they're getting old as it is anyway.

[_Rodders_]

That's 2 litre.

I'm not enough of a BMW beard but did they actually make one?

[Dimachi]

Yes ,have been fir a short span of 18 months,but the this spec with manual gearbox it was in a very small numbers.

[paul_c123]

Diesels vastly outnumber petrols by about 9:1
Auto vastly outnumbers manual by about 10:1
2.0 is more commonplace than 3.0

Each of the above isn't some kind of "quirk" - there are good reasons why most people would have chosen a diesel, auto and/or smaller engine.

[Super Sonic]

Is it a rare car? I don't think I've ever seen one.

[Mr Tidy]

I'd be more inclined to look for a good E60 manual 530i that has a 3 litre straight 6.

But that may be because my daily is a manual E90 330i SE!