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Originally Posted by mbSLRwannabe  i see you guys talking about manuals. an AMG tuned benz is supposed to be a luxury vehicle that is supposed to be comfortable/easy to drive, while performing at a high level. i dont see how a manual transmission would be anything related to luxury or comfort. there is no point of having a manual transmission when a good automatic gearbox could achieve equal or better numbers. why go through the hassle? for an example the automatic on the porsche 997 turbo actually outperforms it's manual counterpart by 3/10 of second from 0 - 60 . (3.4 with auto, 3.7 with manual) and plus most ferraris and lambos sold thesedays have the paddle shift automatic (or they call them e-gear/f1 paddle shift). there would be no point to have a manual AMG benz. the whole point of AMG is to perform at a high level without sacrificing the comfort. |
A manual gearbox gives some of us the old timey sports car control feeling. The auto's with bump shifting are simular and are better no doubt with the option shift manual or no let the trans do it. But unless you have driven a car thru the s turns and such with a clutch and stick and experienced the added effort and thought required, you will never understand. Not saying you haven't, but some of us just want that. Being older and having come up in the "Muscle Car" era(bull, cars today out perform those monsters hands down) when automatics were for Mama's car and rock cruncher 4 speeds were the only way to go, I want manual for my fun cars but auto for my work and other cars.
