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The F10 M has been engineered with the M-DCT as the priority transmission and is at it's most optimum with the Double Clutch Transmission.
It is also equipped with Stop/Start.

This is also a sort of an experiment. If the manual does not reach the expected demand in the US it will mean the end of manuals in the US for future larger and M vehicles.

In general for BMW in the US. The market for manuals is disappearing compared to a few years back. Of all sales about 5% are manuals. Each month however the decline in manual transmission choice is highly obvious.

For M it is more of an advantage and slightly more units because the M3 is available as a manual and then there is the manual-only 1M which should help the numbers.

With MINI the choice has all but been diminished , although the Coupe might change that.