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Originally Posted by thebmw
How much time have you spent in a DCT in traffic? It is worse than a manual. It lurches and shifts less smoothly than an auto. Couple that with carbon ceramic brakes, like I have, and it is lurching forward and jerking to a stop if you're not careful. Torque converters are a wonderful thing in stop-and-go traffic. Manuals are way smoother than DCTs, but more work.
DCTs are amazing if you are on the track, but they really offer no other real world advantage over the heavily refined ZF transmission. There is no replacement for a manual, for better or worse.
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Having driven extensively in very heavy traffic in a manual transmission for all of my driving life using normal street cars, I just don't see the difficulty of a manual transmission. Especially in modern cars with hydraulic clutch circuits and drive-by-wire throttles. Using my E90 as an example, the clutch has easy take up and the ECU is programmed to keep the engine lit and spinning. Once in 1st gear the car will idle along at a few MPH with no need to control the throttle. My 2008 Z4 does this as does my 2022 Bronco.
Is a 1968 Camaro with a 400-block V8 and cable clutch a PITA in stop-and-go traffic, yeah, but it's not 1968 any longer.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."