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Originally Posted by Atmo
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?
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I find the problem with a DCT is that I feel dumb for manually shifting it and just leave it in auto mode on the street so it can handle at least some of the shifts for me. I've only driven a Porsche PDK and an Acura DCT FWIW.
Knowing that the car can shift for you makes me want to just pop it into D. I still end up doing some manual shifts since the car sometimes holds onto gears when I don't want it to, but I don't find it fun, because there's no rev matching and no clutch pedal work.
I will say the paddle shifting on a McLaren looks potentially pretty fun because the latency is close to 0. In that case it would give more of an illusion that you're in full control. Also having the pull-both-paddles-for-neutral function on the GT3 and now this C8 Corvette sounds like it would increase the fun factor.