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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by hx87 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:39AM (#12978929)
It's not hard if the car has plenty of low end torque (e.g. turbodiesel) but yeah, learning in a peaky naturally aspirated sports car can be a handful.
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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by mywittyname on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:24PM (#12979387)
It's not the torque, tiny euro TDs make no power under 2k, where you'd be lifting off the clutch, but they have absolutely massive flywheels and vague clutches that make "just kind of dump it" a viable strategy.

I'll take driving my 8000rpm sports car over my old TDI any day.

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