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Originally Posted by 27offsuit
I have an automatic that has these up and down paddles on the steering wheel that you can shift with if you drop it into the gear below Drive. Haven't tried them yet, as I'm scared I'll grind my tranny, which is surely not an option, but I just don't want to learn essentially.
Drove sticks for many years. It becomes tiresome. That being said, if I had a hot rod on the side, I'd probably want it to be a stick with a cue ball handle. I forget the name, but it is basically a single bent bar coming out of the hump in the console area.
I've only driven stick on simulators. I have the paddle shifters as well, and I can put the stick into manual mode and shift almost as you would with a manual (no clutch tho obviously). I was told by a sports car enthusiast group I'm a part of that I shouldn't touch these modes without knowing what I'm doing or I'll **** up the transmission. Hilariously my '12 sonata has the paddle shifters too but I've never touched them or felt the need to.
Manual is definitely cool as are those little knob shifters. With this car though you need to order it custom if you want manual - most drivers of these cars don't prefer it at all, interestingly. I really like the technology in these cars nowadays though. I can go into my launch control settings and change what RPM the car will shift into certain gears so you can pretty much make it do whatever you want. The car will rev match much better than I ever could too which is hard to do correctly unless you really know what you're doing with a manual transmission.
The car is advertised to get 4.7 0-60 but I can only get ~5.2. Still haven't played with my settings to try to improve it, but it's really fun. The car keeps all of these performance metrics where you can get your best times for various things like 0-60, 8th and quarter mile, etc.