“There’s no point to me of a manual transmission in a modern, high tech sports sedan that otherwise is doing everything it can to just let the driver . . . simply mash the pedal and point the wheel and go with no other effort or thought. Paddle shifting transmissions just go with that design ethos more than a mechanical, obsolete technology that is a century old. Are we gonna still be inserting ‘but this would be better with a manual’ into electric sports car reviews in like 2050?
I do fully respect people’s preference to drive what they like, but for the love of god, I’d like to get through a sports sedan/car review just once without the writer waxing poetic about manual transmissions somehow improving otherwise isolated, heavy, highly computerized vehicles as if that is what is causing a lack of driver excitement and not the boring or total lack of engine and exhaust noise and road/steering feel that would all still be there in the car, stick or not.”
— Steve Harvey Oswald, Jalopnik (2021)
RE:SOURCES
- Oswald, Steve Harvey; 2021. Commentator in “2021 Acura TLX Type-S Brings Acura Back To Its Roots.” Jalopnik. Posted 5:58 p.m., May 20; accessed May 21.
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