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Any quote involving a DSG or automatic gearbox from the VW/Audi/BMW is like buying a good second hand car.
No thanks - like my farm implement.
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Because the world does not revolve around the US. But certainly it's hard for anyone to realize that when they've been brainwashed for an entire century that they live in the greatest country in the galaxy.
Then don’t read American publications and get mad when they are taking about America.
Manual transmissions are dead. I grew up learning to drive a manual transmission car. Awesome. I loved the feeling of driving and shifting gears up the hilly, mountainous, twisty horrible roads in Jamaica. Exhilarating! But cars got better. I got older, and now automatic transmissions are so much more efficient than manual transmissions * for ordinary people *. We're not talking about people who love driving here. We…
My experience of autoboxes is the slow glacial pace of stirring an engine.
Tesla didn't get a transmission mainly because they put enough power and low end torque would blow up any transmission that hit weight and size specs they needed to do.
However, a manual trans can be in an EV. It just doesnt make sense, there's virtually no situations where you want to be out of gear.
Flipside, this is a huge adoption hurdle for me. I need my manual trans.
I love the idea of a manual trans ev wrangler: https://www.motortrend.com/news/jeeps-magneto-concept-wrangl...
But my understanding is that it's not happening.
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Okay but then why is the rolling brick wall of a modern pickup allowed?
Because they're not classified as passenger vehicles, so they don't have to meet the same standards.
The fact that modern American passenger vehicles have evolved into statistically significant deathtraps for surrounding pedestrians, cyclist, and even smaller cars is as political as anything else in that country these days.
Yes it is archaic - very crap in traffic but I never had any mechanical issues with a manual gearbox needing replacement in any of my cars except for normal wear and tear of the clutch plate. Any quote involving a DSG or automatic gearbox from the VW/Audi/BMW is like buying a good second hand car. No thanks - like my farm implement.
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I drove a manual for about 20 years and I still really enjoy them, but there is one thing that made me happily leave them behind: stop-and-go traffic. Not having to clutch constantly when driving in the city is a big enough win that I'm willing to give up the fun of a manual for it. But I do sometimes miss having a stick on a windy mountain road.
I currently use a (automatic) borrowed car from the shop while my (manual) car is being repaired. I mostly do city-driving. One of the biggest issues with the automatic is stop-and-go traffic. It's absolutely trash at accelerating smoothly but fast, and I have no choice but to either go very slowly forward to not make it janky, or really aggressive acceleration. With a manual car, smooth-but-fast acceleration is easy…
You should try a car with a CVT from the last 2-3-ish years to feel the difference.
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Because the world does not revolve around the US. But certainly it's hard for anyone to realize that when they've been brainwashed for an entire century that they live in the greatest country in the galaxy.
Then don’t read American publications and get mad when they are taking about America.
I have similar grumbles whenever a publication uses the phrase "in the country", and I have to go and investigate which country they mean.