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Old 06-29-2016, 02:33 PM   #23
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http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6485

Read this thread Moto-P explains it very well and helped me decide in the end and I'm a big manual guy myself so happy shopping.
The only problem I have with people who talk up the AT in an 86 is this false equivalence between this tranny and the high end automated sequential dual clutch whatchacallit manuals in Porsche, F1 cars, Ferrari, etc.

The automatic transmission in the 86 without a shadow of a doubt has more in common with daddy's Buick than the LFA. It may be the best damn slushbox AT in the world, but it's still got a torque converter, masking that by calling it "e-shift" or "flappy paddles" only serves to stroke someone's ego with falsehoods.

tl;dr buy what makes you happy.

And if you want a true flappy paddle gearbox buy a Golf.
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