Thanks for that. I'm at the dealership on Wednesday and plan to ask then.
I've only been driving in manual mode for the last 48 hours (only picked the car up on Friday) so it may be that I learn to love the system but having tested a Porsche recently I THINK I prefer the +/- system.
I've just purchased a year old (Feb 2011) sDrive35i M Sport. The steering wheel has the push/pull paddles so that each paddle can upshift and downshift.
Does anyone know if it's possible to change the wheel to the one that has the left paddle for downshifts and right for upshifts (the + -...