First, there's no reason an electronic throttle has to be worse than a cable throttle. All other things being equal I'll take the electronic throttle. It offers more room for tinkering.

But the GP said, "I don't think in any car a manual would be out of place."

It'll work.

Thus has the discussion left the realm of sanity behind.

With a manual transmission you have the ability to go from 2nd to 7th, instantaneously.

Point is, the car is designed to hide the gory details of teleporting you from one place to another. With a manual transmission you'd have only a negligible amount of additional control. You don't "understand" it now, and you wouldn't "understand" it if it had a manual, either.

How about a Tesla? Should a Tesla have a manual?

If you have a driver that doesn't understand a car, you essentially have the makings of a bad friendship.

Sigh.

I guess I don't understand all these stories of people going to Autozone and asking the counter monkey things that amount to engineering questions.

The US sends its armed forces into random countries with orders to screw around for a few years doing nothing particularly useful, spend a lot of money, kill a moderate amount of people, replace Bad Guy A with Bad Guy B, and then blow town as quickly as they arrived.

All of the current Maseratis look like generic Buick-things to me.

If you substitute the word "car" for the word "switch" in your post, you will have your answer.

Know how I can tell you've never used Waze?

Funny thing about God/Allah. You don't know anything about Him that you didn't hear from other men.

Everyone knows the last TRUE 911 Turbo ended with the 993 Turbo. REAL 911 Turbo's have whale-tails, air-cooled engines, and 6MT's. (And don't let anyone tell you anything otherwise.)

Yeah, sometimes you have to give the villain credit for trying.

It's been known to happen...

To me, it's what the 911 would have ended up looking like if the designers at Porsche had taken their eye off the ball. It doesn't do much for me. I tend to agree that the Panamera already fills the niche that a modern-day 928 would occupy, even more so if they built a two-door version.

Exactly. As a "cager," the problem I have with lane splitting is that the bike is by definition spending most of its time in someone's blind spot. What could possibly go right?