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That's not a single file. It's a collection of pages stored in a SQL database included in ISTA (google BMW forums for details).

You're probably thinking about this: https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/05/13/bmw-m-boss-hints-at-new-m3-with-rear-wheel-drive-version-and-a-manual-transmission/ Unfortunately, all he confirms is that they built test vehicles with RWD and manuals. I knew it months before he said that. However...

I'm talking to you like I talk with my daughter. Econ101 level will have to be later, once we get past the middle school stuff. I'm not addressing anything you said because you haven't said anything of substance - only complaints that I'm not showing enough respect to this forum's oldtimers...

You're the one who missed the point: what you believe to be a grad student level discussion is really no different from how my 7th grade daughter argues with her friends. Which is what I illustrated with that little dialog above. Dunning and Kruger strike again. The number of BMWs one owns or...

All this time I've been trying to make a single point, which is simple but difficult to accept by the local crowd: the Supra is designed and built by BMW, so only the hardware offered by BMW can go into it. It is clear that BMW has no interest in offering manuals. So, Toyota has two choices...

Of course it does. Toyota decided how the car should look. The overall interior design (as long as you ignore the obvious sourcing of buttons and switches) is also Toyota. The instrument panel is Supra-specific. And Toyota even had some control over the car's mechanics because suspension tuning...

Exactly. To the standards of specific companies. Which means you're back to what BMW does or doesn't offer.

This is not how it works. I'd love to see it happen. My wife is a hard no on the Supra right now specifically because it doesn't have the manual option while otherwise it'd be a perfect car for her needs. But it won't.

OK you can all keep your delusions if they make you warm and happy but here is a simple fact: BMW does not and will not make manual transmissions for B58TÜ engines. And you can be sure that this is not because Toyota didn't want them for Supras because those are just a tiny blip on the radar...

You can like the Toyota brand while remaining realistic about its engineering and marketing decisions. Saying that BMW could offer something but Toyota decided it was below their standards is not being realistic.

Not sure but I don't know how you can offer two performance trims with little differentiation otherwise. Pretty much.

No. EUR is the catch-all designation. There are countries with their own requirements, all others are EUR. Japan is EUR for example. These cars will be for the markets that don't use WLTP. Yes.

Whoa whoa, easy on the fanboyism, Tada-san has enough warriors already.

You sound like someone who never saw Clarkson review a Jaguar.

This here is the nail being hit on the head. BMW considers ventilated seats to be a high end feature and has never offered them on 3 series cars, their equivalent, or below. You always had to step up to a 5 series or better to get it. The new X3 is the first car that violates this rule but...

Toyota simply can't offer something that BMW doesn't make.

This is yet another aspect of A90 where the reality of its BMW roots must be taken into account. With very few exceptions, BMW operates on a seven year model cycle, with model facelift done at the four year mark. Any future Z4 and Supra development will remain joined at the hip, so if BMW runs...

The above was US-specific. In Europe, YBC replaces WZ1, and European VINs always have a zero for model year because that concept doesn't exist there.

Yes, all current right hand drive 40i's are DB42. And it doesn't look like the cars for your market get the European emissions equipment, which suggests you could get B58D.

All non-WLTP ones.