Thoughts on manual transmissions
 

Disclaimer - I am not trying to DIS anyone's enjoyment of their AT's. I know the DCT shifts faster than I will ever shift a stick and I know I am in the minority - just trying to see if anyone here shares my opinion on the essential nature of a conventional stick and clutch in the driving experience.
I am disgusted with the auto industry's movement away from the simple stick and clutch. To me an automatic is just no fun. A stick with a clutch gets the driver fully engaged in the driving experience. Driving an automatic anything is just like "going for a ride" rather than truly driving. No vehicle with an automatic is worth driving to me. Even though we know roughly only 5% of drivers share my opinion, I can't for the life of me figure out why Lexus, Mercedes and Jaguar would just discard a potential 5% boost in sales. Even Cadillac has the CTS-V with a stick.
Any one share my opinion?

What opinion? That no vehicle with an automatic is even worth driving? lol

I'm not THAT against automatics. Just personally, I intend on keeping my cars stick. I find the feeling of a well-timed downshift/heel-toe going into a turn too satisfying to give up. But.. there are a lot of people who live places with tonnes of traffic, or like to text/chat/play with their radios during driving and I can see why an AT would be better suited for them.

However in this car sometimes the low gears clunk and chatter and driving/shifting at low speeds in parking lots, it occasionally makes a somewhat embarrassing sound and that irritates me lol

About a million threads on this. Bump one of the old threads if you would like to chat about it.