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My first car was a MT. Then AT. Then MT. Now I have AT. So I guess my BRZ have to be MT lol.
When I had MT, there was times, no doubt, when I wished to have a AT. When I had AT, there was times, no doubt, when I wished to have MT. Both have con's and pros. for me, the connection with the car is much greater with MT. However, if you have bad MT tranny, it is pain in the ass! When I drive my friend's Peugeot or Alfa MT, all I want is to stop. On the other side, I driving a luxury car without AT has no sense for me. It really depends on what you want, what car do you have and how good/bad the tranny is. Simply saying MT>AT or AT>MT is just showing ignorance. What makes me sad is that with new generation of ultra-high performance supercars MT is mostly dead. |
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I've always seen MT owners claim that 'there's no point buying this car unless it's MT'. I don't see AT owners making elitist, narrow-minded statements like that. If anyone can't understand that AT owners can have as much pleasure out of driving their cars as MT owners do, then they can't see the forest for the trees. What defines driving enjoyment isn't the same for everyone. For me, AT/MT is much, much lower on my list of what defines driving enjoyment than having an open, twisty road.
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people stan hard for MTs because they know auto drivers don't have experience with them so in a sense yes, they need to be told what they are missing otherwise they will never learn and can't make the comparison for themselves. my advice for anyone interested in these cars is that you should at least drive the manual before deciding. it would certainly appear that the engineers designed this car with the standard transmission in mind. if you don't know how to drive manual, then you should take a lesson and then test drive it. i think overall the twins have a 50% take rate on manuals, vs a 5% industry-wide take rate. it was recently reported that only 18% of americans know how to drive manual. what would the take rate be if theoretically everyone knew how to drive stick? |
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But for those drivers who have owned or driven both MT and AT, I'll share my own experience/opinion and let them make up their own minds. I bought the AT BRZ after daily driving stick shift cars since 1984/5. The car that I had before the BRZ was a 1978 Datsun 5-spd manual which I drove for 28 years.
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pretty sure they already sell nearly 50% MT cars, if everyone knew how, id bet it was 80% or more.
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I repeat: Have you read the first two posts in this thread?
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MT is not a mystical device that is hard to learn. My great grandmother, grandmother and mother all pretty much drove them exclusively and they were far more difficult ones to drive than now. I taught my 13 year old grandson to drive it in about 20 minutes. He had zero issues learning. To say that people bought ATs because they don't know how to drive MT is probably the last reason not the main. They bought them because they like them or they just don't care.
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Actually having no experience/reflexes with other type of transmission can make learning faster. For me it's other way around, most of experience is MT only. And when finally after several years had to drive once AT, hardest thing was not to learn how to operate, but to not apply MT reflexes subconsciously. To not seek for clutch, to not hit brake pedal with left foot too hard due clutch use habbits, to not engine-brake, to not be thrown off due unexpected downshift due speed of accel press. Most probably with zero experience it might be easier.
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