[Flarpswitch]

A friend of mine had a Lexus with the same transmission as my 2017 BRZ. Driving both and discounting the obvious difference in the cars, the transmission in the Lexus was set up more for comfort while in the BRZ it was set up for performance. I believe this was accomplished with the torque converter and the tuning of the TCU to mimic a dual clutch transmission. While in this car the manual transmission is the first choice, how and where you drive should dictate if the automatic is a better choice. I remember the one Datsun 240Z that was sold out of our shop that had an Automatic. It was a perfectly fine transmission for that owner, because quite frankly, he didn’t know any better.