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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by TylerE on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:03AM (#12977978)
The Golf R isn't really a fair comparison as it's a dual clutch, not a traditional automatic, and more importantly, it gets a (quite aggressive) launch control while the manual doesn't.
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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by henrikschroder on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:49PM (#12980199)
My argument was that machines can do simple things better than humans, the Golf R automatic transmission is a machine that does shifting better than a human, and you are complaining that the comparison is unfair because the machine is too good at what it does?!?

Come on.

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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by TylerE on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:29PM (#12980616)
I'm just saying it's not apples and apples... the launch control helps the time a lot more than the DSG does.
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