[OFFICIAL] Manual v. Automatic Thread

[scruffydog]

Originally Posted by marcussoori

Just wondering, doesn't this hurt the clutch?

i may have mis interpreted what I meant I like to do with a Manual car, but I meant I like to press in the clutch pedal (when engine is disengaged with the tranny) and then rev the engine just for the heck of it to hear the Engine Roar. And so no, it wouldn't hurt the clutch as I am not releasing the clutch pedal until the RPM drops back down to idle or the proper RPM, but you can't really do that with an auto tranny without being harsh on it while it's in motion. But forget what I said, that's a ridiculous reason to buy a manual car, I think one should buy it for the driving experience. Driving a manual car takes a certain amount of skills which takes time to perfect; and to me driving an auto kind of takes that away. Sure some may argue that it's the same for the Sychro Rev matching system performing the Heel to toe for us, but I think people who never drove Manual and only drove Auto tranny will never understand that driving experience. Paddle shifters can never give you that same experience. If you had 30 years of driving a manual car, I can promise you will miss driving a Manual car if you ever went with an Auto 370z. You may feel that the M-mode in an auto tranny can somewhat satisfy you, maybe for awhiile, you may even be able to convince yourself for awhile that it's better for gas mileage or easier in traffic, but like me after a month or so, you'll realize it's not the same and it'll leave you wanting a Manual car again. Especially when you find out that this 370z may be one of the last true Manual sports car before technology phase out manual transmissions for Auto. Afterall, car manufacturer's only have 2 main goal in it's mind... 1) is to create as little transmission configurations as possible to satisfy majority of the driver's preference, which in this case is Automatic Transmission. And 2) is to cater to people who cares about performance and speed, which a Manual car used to have an upper hand because it can handle more torque and has better efficiency until technology's able to advance Auto tranny to be comparable or even better than Manual transmission in terms of shift time, etc. So it doesn't really leave a place for Car manufacturer's any interest to continue making Manual cars....well, at least for the old school manuals....their only focus now is Twin Clutch Manual, which to a driver no different than an Auto. For the people that wants some kind of control so the computer doesn't do everything for you, the so called M-Mode is the best you're gonna get (meaning no clutch pedal) No one in the future will ever know that a car can stall. Sad...but it's reality.