i did my part buying 2 manual brz’s. what are the rest of ya’ll doing?

Yup. After owning manuals almost entirely, I bought an e90 m3 with DCT. The transmission was incredibly capable and fast but I couldn’t help but feel bored by it. It did all the stuff that I wanted to do and wouldn’t let me do some other things that I love doing on occasion. My replacements have all had 3 pedals.

We’re also talking about a car that’s for fun, not for dominating a particular racing series, which is why I’ll never get the complaints about “making it slower” by opting for a gearbox some folks have more fun with, heh. To a lot of folks, part of the challenge is being able to get it right on your own. Beat the car.…

Manual, RWD, and I’ll allow ABS as a safety measure for the street.

I was completely on the DCT bandwagon for a long time. Faster, often more reliable, extremely fast upshifts, best of both worlds, etc. I had all the arguments. Of course, I put my money where my mouth is and bought a car with a solid DCT. Its fast, it works great, I can sit in traffic without my left leg getting a…

lol. This isn’t a race car. It can’t race in any wheel to wheel racing series. No one gives a shit that it can make it around Laguna Seca 0.8 seconds faster before because it saves on shift time. He bought it to drive it, he’s going to enjoy it more now. The “manuals are slower” is a tired argument GTI owners make to…

This guy is never going to be as fast around a track as Senna, may as well make the experience as much fun as possible. For him, a manual gearbox makes it more fun.

He’s not racing for money or trophies, he is hitting the track for fun and finds manuals more fun. What is idiotic about that?

BECAUSE HE WANTED A MANUAL

If the next S2000 doesn’t come with a manual, are you still getting one?

$40k to make it more responsive to the driver. Hmm.

A $40k manual swap.

I don’t know about an m4 gts, but many cars are performing at a level that exotic and were a few decades ago, that includes the transmission.

It’s much worse than that. They’re claiming that it’s impossible to do what lots of other companies have been doing for decades.

This seems like a cop out to me. The take rate on manuals is very low, this just seems like an excuse not to spend the time and money developing a manual to hold the power these cars make when you know there aren’t as many buyers out there. That’s fine from a business-case standpoint, you don’t need to throw up your…

In fairness, BMW engineers still haven’t figured out how to make oil seals that actually keep the oil where it’s supposed to be, so little wonder that the development guys don’t foresee them getting complicated thing like transmissions right. Best let GM handle the heavy lifting.

Let’s just kill the manual gear box and the DCT because our engineers suck. Sound good? Good.

Consumers: We want more fuel efficient cars.
Industry: Here’s a 50 mpg CRX.
Consumers: AWESOME.
Government: That’s not safe. Make it heavier.
Industry: These new cars are safe, but not very efficient.
Government: Unacceptable. Make them more efficient.
Physics: Psht. Heh.
Industry: These are safe and efficient, but not in…

Sadly, the vast majority of people buying cars have no idea how they technically work, certainly down to on boost/off boost economy versus a blanket advertised figure only broken into city/highway/combined.