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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
I think the problem is fuel economy more than power. MT have been handling massive power for years, but when you have to start adding 8 to 10 gears to a transmission to meet/improve fuel economy people lose interest.
I know I have zero interest in driving an MT with more than 4 or maybe 5 gears in it. When my car has as many gears as a semi, give me a DCT or AT.
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After years of M/T vehicles only, I'm really warming up to DCT's (not so much A/T's for shift lag vs. DCT's) for the ease of trail braking on track.
I'm inconsistent with that on an M/T car, fine with heel-toe but adding trail braking at corner entry is usually a crapshoot unless I'm driving an A/T and deploy left foot braking.
Plus how much fun would it be cracking off <100ms up/downshifts all day and never crunching gears or accidentally making a 5-4 downshift into a 5-2 and zinging my 2JZ to (calculated, the tach didn't go that high) 9K rpm?