Is the M3 SMG transmission good? What is the BMW M3 E46 SMG gearbox really like to drive and live with? What is an M3 SMG like in comparison to the manual M3 gearbox and why did it get so much hate? Should you buy an M3 with an SMG gearbox? This BMW M3 SMG2 transmission review tries to give you a true honest opinion from an actual E46 M3 owner's perspective rather than someone who has just gone for a test drive, I do a full road test showing the SMG gearbox being used in S1 to S6 settings as well as the automatic settings so you can see and hear for yourself how SMG changes gear, how fast it shifts, when it revs and auto blips on the downshifts (mine is the M3 CSL which runs different SMG software to the regular E46 M3 but you can get yours remapped to run CSL software) and just how good the SMG gearbox really is. There’s also plenty of that intoxicating M3 CSL intake sound and a few tunnels with wide open throttle thrown in for good measure!
I’ve done quite a long review on this one, because I wanted to really try and cover all aspects of the SMGII in use under varying conditions, such as fast road use, slow driving in traffic, pulling away under soft and hard acceleration, launching 0-60 with the SMG, and whatever else I could think of…
Hopefully this video goes some way towards helping you decide whether you should buy an E46 M3 with SMG gearbox and just how good the SMG transmission actually can be when learnt and used correctly.
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