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Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

Rowing through the gears is all part of the joys of a manual in a pcar.

Originally Posted by wilnj

Not just a pcar. I’ve had my E46 for 5 months now and I still smile when I learn something new about where it wants me to shift in a given situation.


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...almost every car. Most of the cars that I've owned have been manual, and I would have been happy for the others to have been manual. I've had large V-8 manual cars, little <100hp manual cars, etc.... Some cars need to be manual. I suppose it's possible these days for auto trannies to perform well enough to be OK behind just about anything, but I'd still prefer a manual.

And in the place of a manual, I'd never choose a slushbox. I'd choose one of two other transmissions, an automatic manual like a PDK, SMG, etc... some sort of manual box with computerized shifting. The other thing that I'd choose would be some sort of CVT (it would have to be sturdy/reliable) And I'd be happy for it to actually be CV rather than like many CVTs where they have artificial shift points to make them feel like a regular transmission. The CVT in our outback will occasionally not "shift". I've had times where I was accelerating into traffic and the RPMs set and then the speed kept climbing. That's pretty interesting.