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You can also do that with a decent automatic transmission.
Ah yes the good ol' "Tap the breaks before an overtake" trick. Just as god intended. /s
I also presume manual transmissions will continue to be available to the enthusiasts and professionals/sportspeople who have an actual reason to desire them.
Nothing protects your car from theft by millennials like a manual transmission.
Manual transmission fetishism is perplexing to me. I’ve owned two manual transmission cars… an old Hyundai Elantra and an even older Toyota pickup. I can’t think of a single reason I would not rather have the automatic version of either. I also presume manual transmissions will continue to be available to the enthusiasts and professionals/sportspeople who have an actual reason to desire them.
Manual transmission fetishism is perplexing to me. I’ve owned two manual transmission cars… an old Hyundai Elantra and an even older Toyota pickup. I can’t think of a single reason I would not rather have the automatic version of either. I also presume manual transmissions will continue to be available to the enthusiasts and professionals/sportspeople who have an actual reason to desire them.
it's very fun to row through the gears of a moderately sporty car; that's where people's "fetishm" (more accurately "preference") comes from
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You can also do that with a decent automatic transmission.
Ah yes the good ol' "Tap the breaks before an overtake" trick. Just as god intended. /s
You don't get the sensation of letting the clutch go at juuust the right revs, but hey, there are always motorcycles.
Manual transmission fetishism is perplexing to me. I’ve owned two manual transmission cars… an old Hyundai Elantra and an even older Toyota pickup. I can’t think of a single reason I would not rather have the automatic version of either. I also presume manual transmissions will continue to be available to the enthusiasts and professionals/sportspeople who have an actual reason to desire them.
I've owned a dozen+ manual transmissions and the one in my Hyundai Elantra is by far the worst I have ever used. It's incredible "notchy" and prevents you from shifting between gears quickly (I assume intentionally for fuel economy/longevity reasons). You couldn't pick a worse example to compare against.
I hope that someday there will be an option for an electric car with a manual transmission. Regardless of how small the market would be and how little practical sense it would make