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Originally Posted by 82mm 4g63
I have to agree and disagree. While more and more people are buying automatics, the percentage of manual drivers is surely decreasing...but that doesn't mean manufacturers are going to stop making performance cars with MTs. So what if there are fewer MT drivers as long as the MT cars are still there for me to buy?
Another thing I don't get is why we [MT drivers] give a crap about what Joe Schmoe driver is doing with his left foot. If I buy a Corvette and I'm driving around town loving my car and I see another Corvette, I'm not going to start wondering...hm I wonder if that ahole has an automatic or a manual. Truth is, I just don't give a crap what someone else has/drives. Their $, their choice.
There's no argument, an MT is more engaging than any other sort of automated transmission, but so what? It's not like I'm switching from first person to third person in a video game. I'm still in the car, shifting my gears with a paddle, turning my wheels with a steering wheel. Instead of 100% engaged, I'm 99.5% engaged? I can probably accept that. (I've only driven friends paddle shifted cars on short drives.) If I'm really that concerned with being one with my car, I might as well cut out the power steering and power everything else. I should have to feel those gears turning when I roll up my window. Or does that not count?
G37S are boring cars. My uncle has a 87 Grand National with an automatic transmission and every time we take it out we're freaking drunk with excitement. Don't blame the type of transmission a car has, because the car as a whole is boring. Even an MT G37S is boring, more engaging? Yes, but still boring.
To each his/her own. As far as the FRS is concerned, if I get one, it'll be MT only because they've said there won't be any high tech automatic option. So it really leaves just the MT. :happy0180:
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Out of curiosity, are we believing that the AT that Toyota/Subaru is using is based off the Aisin one that the Miata currently employs?
I was just reading this from one of the earlier forum posts that links to an older post:
http://www.autosite.com/content/shar...le_id_int/1415
^Though I wonder if its more of the Miata being a fun car, and the transmission didn't really matter?
And assuming there's some tinge of truth in this C&D article, has the magazine ever even liked a particular automatic transmission before? Its been a while since I picked up C&D to read.