[Heero]

Originally Posted by thorlius

Try driving the 6MT in the Genesis coupe 2.0T. Throttle response is awful in that car, and the clutch is brutal. Maybe turbo lag has something to do with it, too, but coming from my C6, I couldn't manage it. Stalled twice on a test drive. Also doesn't help that reverse is stupidly beside 1st, and nothing prevents you from accidentally dropping it into R when you're looking for 1st (no pull-up ring on the shifter like on the FR-S).

The FR-S on the other hand was a piece of cake. Smoothest clutch and shifting I've ever felt.

To address the 1st to 2nd lurching thing, in city traffic I'll just go 1st gear up higher into the rev range, then skip to third or fourth, letting the clutch out as the RPMs drop down roughly where they need to be. Essentially get up to speed in first, then shift into a coasting gear. Since you're done accelerating at this point, it's much smoother, and is far less shifting. Less staggered acceleration pissing off the people behind you, too (like in the country when you're stuck behind an 18-wheeler and counting his gear shifts). You shouldn't need to use every gear in the city all the time.

First gear redlines at around 55km/h in the car IIRC, so you might go 1st for a bit (no need to redline it), 3rd for a bit more, then maintain in 4th/5th. This being said, I don't own the car yet, so I'm not too familiar with the ratios, but I imagine 4th is good for cruising in most city streets on it since it's such a high revving car. (With the C6's gearing, 4th and 5th are good city gears, but 6th is only usable at 100km/h or more - 1200rpm at 100 or 2000rpm at ~150 which is insanely low.)

I'm a noob to driving MT... but my dad has plenty of experience driving truck and he told me not to skip gears on MT cars? he said it wears out synchronizes.

I duno if its true or not just throwing out what the old man told me