Blasphemy!

Originally Posted by Pharmacist

how observant! first it was ferrari to phase out manual gearboxes, now lamborghini is joining them. soon, audi will do the same to the r8. bmw will also phase out the manual gearbox in favor of the dual clutch transmission. and then porsche will have the pdk standard on all their cars. aston has already semi-eliminated the manual from their models. mercedes hasn't offered them in years on their sporty cars. a whole bunch of supposedly sporty supposedly driver oriented cars that drive themselves via a computer chip. when it's all said and done if you want to shift your own gears the only way to do that will be to drive a commercial truck. who knows, maybe they too will get dual clutch gearboxes yeah, no issue at all.

i would personally rather have the pleasure of shifting my own gears even if it means an extra few milliseconds around a track. not like i'm fighting for the F1 championship and every millisecond off the laptime is crucial.

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