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Originally Posted by MeetJoeAsian
Here's really the reason why I prefer to keep my 6MT over trading it for a 7AT, I love the fact that I control every factor of my car's shifting in a 6MT...with the 7AT, you press the button, and a computer decides what gear to put it into based on your input, and then it "electronically" selects the gear for you...I like the SMG transmission, where it IS a manual transmission, but you just have a pump clutching & putting it into gear for you...I guess for me, the feeling is different driving when you know that your gear mechanics are the place you want them to be, rather than having a computer holding the gear for you...
I would have been more inclined to get an automatic had it been a sequential-shifter ONLY...meaning, no option to put into full automatic (like the last generation of the Toyota MR2 sequential shifter)...in my head, I feel that if I have a full automatic that it's not meant to be shifted manually, and I would get into the habit of not shifting, and in the long run, I'm just gonna get rid of the car cuz the "fun" factor is gone, just like with my G35c...
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What are you talking about?
7AT changes to the next gear up or the next gear down *when* you tell it to - if you need to "skip" a gear, bump it twice...it does it.
The only exception is if it's in "auto" mode *and* you either flip it to manual, or bump the "-" paddle shifter, it'll drop from 7 to 5 when going down the highway, and I still will sometimes bump it twice to kick it to 4th and haul...if you bump the "+" paddle, it stays in 7th and you can back it down to 6th if you so desire, or pull over the stick at that point and it'll stay in 7th (I need to double check on moving the stick, though I know it will stay in 7th with the paddles and being in auto mode)
As for not being meant to - if that was the case, they wouldn't have made it so.