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Old 05-18-2015, 10:06 AM   #80
Norm Peterson
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Originally Posted by Cuda7050 View Post
My 2012 has a M6 and is lots of fun on spirited drives and on the road course. My daily drive to work on country roads is no problem, but at the drag strip the manual is a real bummer. Hard to get consistently good reaction times, nearly impossible to get good consistent launches and hard on the driveline. Maybe if I lived at the drags I could figure it out, but going only 3 times a year makes it tough. I may go with the A8.
No flame intended, but why would you base your transmission choice for all of that car's use on an activity so rarely participated in?


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Originally Posted by JBsC6 View Post
I've been driving manuals for 38 years..-and drove the c7 with the cool rev matching option.....which I loved.....that said if I buy a camaro SS it would be with the a8.

Technology has just made the automatics almost impossible to beat.

Gotta go with the faster car...
This point always seems to come up, and I still don't see the appeal of having to share the credit with a transmission that does it all for you (or the people who programmed it to be able to).


We've owned manual transmission cars exclusively for over 40 years, and have no intention of changing that no matter what car we buy next. At this point, it's just the way we expect cars to work.


6-speed manual.


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