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I think comparing BMWs to Hondas (Acura) and Nissans (Infinity) and Toyota (Lexus) is a totally legitimate discussion. All these cars are mass-production, assembly-line automobiles, built with world-wide sourced parts from automotive industry suppliers on a lowest component price basis. The build quality between the parent company and luxury brand is negligible. The major components underneath the skin are the same. The steel and aluminum alloys used to make the parts are the same. The parts are built on the same production tooling. The process control used to build the brands (and parts) are the same. The Japanese are better at the engineering of building cars than the Germans.
The JD quality rankings have more to do with the HMI interface and perception of quality.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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