How To Drive A BMW SMG Gearbox 

Great video, The Best thing about this car, that everyone misses the point about is that you have to learn to drive it. Every time you drive it, you get better at driving it, this is why it’s such a rewarding car to own. Unless you are a professional racing driver it will take you years to master. Anyone can jump into today’s generation of car and drive them fast, it’s easy everything is done for you and you will be bored after 3 months of ownership. But learning to drive the SMG properly is very rewarding and only adds to the frill of driving this V10 Super Saloon

You can lift when in manual mode but its gotta be spot on with the timing and its not a full lift like you would a traditional manual. You're just relieving a lil pressure off the pedal, worked fine for me the last 6 years with no issue.

On an M6 binge after learning about it and the v10 recently, I think it’s my new dream car for summer time.

Great vid! Keep 'em coming! You've been a ton of help!!! I remember reading an article way back when the SMG first came out, and it said the reason for the gear shifter being with the + pulling back, and the - pushing forward, is because it follows the natural movement of the car when it is accelerating or braking. So you accelerate, the car pulls back and to accelerate further you pull back the stick. Vice Versa when braking. Made a ton of sense and I never forgot it. Now it seems weird to me when cars have it the other way around.

Looking at my first E60 M5 right now, never have drove an SMG transmission like that. Made it easy and simple for me to learn! I appreciate all the good tips! Can’t wait to learn my car

is it ok if you dont have the car to go with it?

Next question , How to swap smg to manual …

Thanks for a great review!

smg is cool

Thanks this helped a lot my dad just got a e60 m5 with only 20k km and I get to drive the car but only if I understand the SMG transmission.👌🏽

Nice video, informative

this transmission is brilliant: direct shift actuators (no cross gate upshifts) for the fastest shifts possible on this single clutch transmission and it does double clutching on downshifting to preserve the synchronizers, virtually the computer is operating it perfectly.

New follow thanks a million all the way from New York

Looks like he's driving in a real-life Forza Horizon 4 map😄 | Good video mate!

cheers mate

Cheers mate

Another great video! Thanks. I've been driving for many years DSG auto gear box and I cannot change mind pushing forward to downshift. I just use the paddles not to downshift when I want to do the opposite! Crazy!

Thanks for not bashing the smg, it's something that you get used to, many people go from driving manual cars to these cars and find them jerky, that I feel is because their body is used to bracing itself during the manual gear changes and that's more difficult to time when the computers do the changes

So I have been doing it wrong by lifting off! And never used full auto. I will give it a try next time I go out, thanks M tech guy

If you are driving along in auto mode and want the lowest gear poosible when you floor it, hold (not click) the down paddle (while floored) and you will get an additional lower gear (or more maybe, by then I am looking out the windshield), then I just move the shifter to the right to go back to auto mode (if you don't it will stay in manual) and let the SMG do its thing, it's a really cool that feature that I discovered one day, not sure how. 2008 M5