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Originally Posted by Rodion
Yes, high gloss panels are non cost options in Europe. But in my opinion, they look good only if you have other "high gloss surface" on dash, such as fineline wooding.
If you have non cost silverish plastic or aluminium panels, adding high gloss surface on some part of the dash makes it only worse.
And as I wrote to the pic thread as well, please comment the manual gearbox once you have more kms with it.
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Good point Rodion about the high gloss not fitting that much if the rest of the trim is not high gloss(I have the aluminium trim), makes me feel better !
Now about the manual gearbox, I think above all is a matter of preference. I do not consider myself as objective(or I don't have the right amount of experience) because I I had little experience with auto (some of the few times I tested it looked weird to me). I always liked to feel that I have full control of the car and this is the reason I preferred the manual. About the X3 manual gearbox, sure you get a good feeling out of it and I would say that it is in line with the standard of the car. There is a gearshift indicator in the instrument panel that suggests you which gear you should have every moment to achieve best fuel consumption and according to this in 55km/h you should have 4th in and in 65km/h already 5th. This is not very different from when you feel that you should change gear, that's why I had mentioned in other posts that relationships are rather close. But again for me this is not a problem, because anyway my usual driving style is one hand holding the wheel and the other the gear lever and still the feeling of controlling the car myself, not to mention also the money saved if not choosing auto, makes the manual gearbox the choice for me.
I hope this helped you a bit !