Rich Mickol

NO. No way do I regret getting auto.

68 BB 396

To each there own. I respect others opinions but it will always be manual for me. Nothing like it.

FlyerVette

Me neither......

at7000ft

torquetube

The folks recommending an automatic will eventually get their way, because 3-pedal manuals are on the endangered species list. Get and enjoy the manual while you still can. It probably won't be available at all on a C8.

VRYALT3R3D

Manual. You are buying a sports car, not a lame family sedan.

VRYALT3R3D

People are artificially being pushed to buy a automatic over a manual for the sake of a .5 or 1sec to 0-60.

LPT2011

Really ? My C6 is the first manual car I ever bought and whether you want to admit it or not, it actually takes skill to drive a manual vs. pushing the accelerator and steering the car. Its tons more fun to take out on country roads and run through the gears, downshifting into the turns, making 6K RPM shifts and just smiling. And FUN is what my C6 is all about !

ps - I'm already old ... but I don't feel old

wayback

Typical posts of a manual fanatic. Can't remember which side he was on one post prior.

Hameister

+1



And I'll add one more dimension....automatic transmissions were designed for women, and girly men, who are unwilling, or unable, to learn to drive a high performance machine. Everyone knows that, but no one wants to come right out and say it.

There, it's out in the open now.

Hameister

Where do you get your information? Is this some fantasy?

There isn't a true sports car in the world, that is only building automatic transmissions. I have never seen any responsible publication that even suggests that manual transmissions are on the way out, and will be no longer available.

I'd like to see a link that verifies your comment.

Snowwolfe

What makes you think you can't down shift or up shift a 6 speed auto at will? You just use a finger or thumb instead of a foot and hand.
Here is something for you M6 guys:
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Tally Ho

I think the comment may directed towards the fact that three pedal manual shift cars are becoming scarce and rowing through the gears is being replaced by the flappy paddle. Still a manual but not as manual as it once was.

Hameister

Well, like I said way back in post #83, it's a matter of personal choice. I've seen so many of these M6 vs. A6 threads, that really go nowhere, and convince no one, of anything.

Personally, I've driven a paddle shift, and I've driven several +/- floor mount manual/auto shifts like the Nissan Maxima. To me, it's push button driving, and just doesn't give me the "feel" of the car, or the control, or even the same sensation of driving that I get with a stick and clutch. But, that's just me.

GuyFromLeMans

But but..... wait!!! We haven't finalized which color was the right one????

I now know that I'm a sissy, (even though I spent a good part of my adult life driving sticks before having the auto option available to me)but I desperately need to know if my poor taste in aesthetics makes me some sub human entity that does not deserve the air he's breathing in addition to the sissified status....

Pleeeeeeeeze let me know..... I can't take the suspense any more!!!!!

Thanks CF!

torquetube

Ferrari ceased production of all 3-pedal manuals years ago. Lamborghini just phased them out. The new Porsche 911 GT3 and 911 Turbo can't be had with one. Ditto McLaren, Nissan GT-R, Audi R8... the list goes on and on.

Everywhere a DSG/DCT/PDK/E-Gear/F1/whatever gearbox is offered with a fully-automated clutch, fly-by-wire gear selection, and only two pedals, it outsells the manual gearbox option. I think some of this is due to novelty, and the 3-pedal cars will one day command a premium. Or maybe not, seeing as an ever-dwindling percentage of the population even knows how to operate one. "In 1987, 29.1% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. were manual transmission, according to the EPA. By 2010, however, the rate had fallen to just 3.8%." (Time).

I think that it will eventually become impossible to make mileage/emissions targets without a true FADEC, and that means the car needs to run the gearbox as well. Then they'll all be gone.

LPT2011

Not surprised at all that you listed one of your bookmarked websites

Tell me do you also throw it into neutral so you can rev the engine at the stoplights ....WAWAWAWAWAWA

TLS_Addict

Maybe growing up in Europe damaged your brain. Read the line I posted after that in the same post.

You didnt quote my entire post, you picked the first line. The 2nd line SHOWS to anyone with even half a brain that it was sarcasm. However, you completely missed it.

I have had automatics and manuals. Its all in what you want the car for.

Don-Vette

Buy what you like, like what you buy. Only you can answer your question not us.

myfunz

Transplant them.