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Originally Posted by shiumai
All I hear are MT owners trying to convince AT owners that AT's aren't as fun. There's no point - it's subjective.
I've always seen MT owners claim that 'there's no point buying this car unless it's MT'. I don't see AT owners making elitist, narrow-minded statements like that.
If anyone can't understand that AT owners can have as much pleasure out of driving their cars as MT owners do, then they can't see the forest for the trees. What defines driving enjoyment isn't the same for everyone.
For me, AT/MT is much, much lower on my list of what defines driving enjoyment than having an open, twisty road.
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its not a 1:1 comparison because i venture that most people who buy the AT have never driven/owned an MT car.
people stan hard for MTs because they know auto drivers don't have experience with them so in a sense yes, they need to be told what they are missing otherwise they will never learn and can't make the comparison for themselves.
my advice for anyone interested in these cars is that you should at least drive the manual before deciding. it would certainly appear that the engineers designed this car with the standard transmission in mind. if you don't know how to drive manual, then you should take a lesson and then test drive it. i think overall the twins have a 50% take rate on manuals,
vs a 5% industry-wide take rate.
it was recently reported that only 18% of americans know how to drive manual. what would the take rate be if theoretically everyone knew how to drive stick?