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Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN
You may be misinterpreting the purpose of manual mode
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Yeah, I'm really confused by your comments on this. Keeping it in normal auto mode all the time is a little boring. With a car like this, why not have a little fun, even outside the racetrack?
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Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN
there is a gear indicator in drive only when you hit the paddles you knob. Why else would you need to know what gear its in  |
Well you don't
need to know what gear it's in when in M either, do you? But I like to know, and I would like to know in D. Sometimes when in D I switch it to M and back just to see what gear it's in.
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Originally Posted by NWFRS
In "manual mode" I personally felt as if it was the worst of both worlds for normal city driving. The paddles are on the wheel after all. In mid-corners they're never where I left them.
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Yeah, I actually use the stick more often, it's just much easier to say or google "paddles" than "the stick for manual shift mode on an AT." I never try using the paddles when turning.
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Originally Posted by ermax
I just found it comical to suggest that there isn’t any extra driver involvement on a manual.
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I don't think he said that. He said "Ignore any 'driver involvement' remarks," which I interpreted as "The extra driver involvement on a manual is overrated."
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Originally Posted by ermax
Sure there is manual mode but if your driving around in manual mode all the time then you may as well get a MT.
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Maybe this changes with experience, but for a beginner, a MT is way the hell harder to shift than just flicking a stick or paddle.
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Originally Posted by ermax
In a perfect world it would be nice to have a true manual with three pedals that could be shifted automatically in those rare cases where you want to be lazy.
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Yeah, like the Back to the Future DeLorean. Not sure if we actually see Marty shift or it's just implied, but we definitely see the clutch pedal at one point, yet the Doc drives it via remote control. I think the FR-S semi-automatic transmission is about as close as we're going to get to that for a while.