Is the SynchroRev Match worth it?

Cory Gillmore

I absolutely love the feature. I leave mine on 24/7...It's kinda funny because I've had my car for 13 months now and the other day I was feeling all special because of how smooth I've gotten with shifting (this was my first manual car) and I was thinking to myself "ya know, I would say I'm pretty damn good at driving a manual transmission car now".

Well then I turned off the SRM and came to the conclusion that I still don't really know how to drive a manual transmission car...like wow..as a novice manual driver you really don't realize how much SRM is doing for you until you go back to real manual mode. Really the thing I missed most without it was how SRM would hold the RPMs there for you on upshifts whereas without it the RPMs just keep dropping until you release the clutch and add a little gas. It didn't help at all that the timing I used to attain a smooth shift with SRM on did not even come close to attaining a smooth shift with it off.

I guess the moral of the story is: SRM is an amazing feature, so much so that it led me to believe that I was a better driver than I really am. But if you rely on it too much, it will actually make you a worse driver!