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I have an '05 X3 I ordered for my wife with a manual tranny and we love it for road trips. I don't really find the interior all that bad and the handling is pretty amazing for an SUV.
I intend to keep the vehicle long enough that any hit on resale for the transmission choice is irrelevant as far as I am concerned. I have never owned a vehicle with an automatic (40+ years worth of driving) and have no intent of buying one now. My daily commute is about 10 minutes of backroads, so I don't have to put up creep and crawl freeway time.
In that context I far and away prefer rowing my own gears and only put up with slush boxes when I get loaner cars and rentals.
X3 forums with signs of life:
Bimmerfest and X3world.com
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