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No manual transmission = dealbreaker. And I mean a stick, not paddles.
by Kaibeezy 7y ago
No manual transmission = dealbreaker. And I mean a stick, not paddles.
- e1ven 7y agoI insist on a manual, and have declined to buy cars I otherwise liked because they didn't make a manual transmission model. I don't have a lot of experience with fully electric cars, but I've always read that the torque on electric cars makes the transmission unnecessary. Is that not so? Have you had a bad experience?
- Kaibeezy 7y agoI only want to drive a stick. It’s about being involved and engaged in the experience. Might go look at a Toyota GT86. RWD, normally aspirated, supposedly underpowered, all good! A slow car driven fast is way more fun than a fast car driven slow.
- aplc0r 7y agoI'm the same way, but I'm also conflicted. I see the many advantages of an electric engine and an automatic transmission. However, whenever I am forced to drive even an ICE automatic, I feel so disconnected. I am willing to concede that this is likely a result of the fact that I first learned to drive in a manual. Do long time automatic drivers feel the same way when using things like adaptive cruise control or lane change assist? Obviously these things make driving easier and less stressful, but when I encounter them it just feels wrong. To me it isn't a that I believe as a human I can do these things better than a computer, but rather that giving up control also reduces my respect for the reality that I am directing a 2 ton hunk of metal in a river of similar potential death machines. I imagine if I do look back on this comment in the future, it will be in the same vein as someone who derided the rise of email versus the tactile pleasure of a written letter. All the advantages of email didn't matter to those who loved writing letters at the time.