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Originally Posted by Ocala FR-S
From a dead stop, first gear winds out before you can complete a left turn in a large city intersection. If you don't mind travelling 27 feet at a steady 5700 rpms with a Camry slowly crawling up your butt while you wait for the turn to end, then fine, otherwise it's well past time to shift.
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Ah, there's the rub. I read that as if you were talking about turns out in the mountains, not on the street. Mea Culpa!
As far as street cornering goes however, I've now managed to test an A/T FRS and never really encountered this issue. I found that I could clear intersections pretty easily even keeping it under 5k rpm since the Sales Rep was sitting with me. Having said that, it was just a short 20 minute test drive and I'm not sure I encountered the same type of intersections you have, so I'm going to defer to your experience and just say good luck and keep at it!
You're right though, it really is all just about time in the seat playing with the paddles. I've had my IS350 for 6 years now and the paddles are basically second nature. The rep started explaining how to shift into Manual mode as we were driving out of the lot, saw me do it without even thinking about and just start paddling away, stopped mid sentence, then showed me the quickest way to get to the closest twisty road (well, as twisty as you can get in the middle of San Diego)
