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11-27-2012, 03:06 PM | #23 |
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I was 12 when I first drove a manual car. It was my father's E30 316i. No one had to teach me how. It just came naturally.
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i bet there are a few just because the manual is dying out but still i think this forum has a very small percentage if any actually
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Been driving a stick since I was 12..dad taught me on a Datsun F10 out int he Az desert. Hell even wifey drives a manual.
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if you travel to the EU, they cannot check this on your US license, but do you really want to be in a foreign city with foreign signs and be lost AND not know how to shift your car? |
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11-27-2012, 05:31 PM | #31 |
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Been driving a manual since age 17. That makes 29 years. If I have gone like 4-5 days without driving my M3, I really start to miss the manual experience. I think I am pretty damn good at it, if I do say so myself. DCT will still give an advantage in a first gear start from a standstill, but little beyond that for me in terms of measurable performance.
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11-28-2012, 01:31 AM | #32 |
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I've never owned a manual, but I can drive them decently well.
When I got DCT I drove maybe 25% of the time in manual mode, but now it's more like 90%. I won't be going back to an automatic (in case it's not clear, I don't consider DCT to be an "automatic")
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i've only driven a manual car a few times in my life. i test drove a new mustang gt a few months ago and asked for a manual. boy it was fun, but i can see how it could get old driving it daily in socal.
i did spin the tires a lot and chirped a lot shifting into second, but i did ok overall. i stalled it twice i think. probably did too much clutchwork, but it seemed to have a lot of travel and i don't think i did that bad with my little experience and no real instruction.
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While I also don't think DCT is an auto tranny, what happens when the performance between the 2 are so close together? The 8spd AT is no slouch either, but 2 pedal driving experience is going to start to be the same IMHO.
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Pretty sure he was talking about a bicycle....
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I'm actually worried about this myself. There are rumors that the next M3's DCT will have 8 speeds. I guess if they're just adding yet another overdrive gear for fuel economy that's fine; let's not forget that those fortunate to drive on the autobahn can actually cruise at high revs in 6th and 7th. But with a 6MT setup you have basically three gears used for performance driving (2nd through 4th on the road, 3rd through 5th on the track), and if the rumored 8-speed DCT were instead geared so that you now had four or even five gears to handle in those contexts, I think that would get a bit cumbersome and become a distraction rather than an improvement over 6MT.
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Since some people insist that DCT is actually manual, I suppose everyone who owns an M3 knows how to drive a manual.
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