My 6MT vs Auto driving impression. Opinions please

Pauly

good enough. thanks unknown

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welcome

Mt Tam I am

Wow this thread has been civil all in all, and informative.

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Me personally. I love manuals, so I have nothing bad to say about them. That being said. I think nissan did an Outsanding Job with the 7at. It is the perfect evolution of the 5at that was in the 350z/G35, its super-responsive and feels equal to both 135 and EVO DCT's yet its merely a slushbox. There are no performance drawbacks except when you get the occasional exhaust drone related to slushboxes.
There's a little less going on due to lack of your use of left leg. Its harder to sustain long burnouts, and you can't skip gears. But DRM blips the throttle so you have heel and toe capability from an automatic. A huge technological advantage on an auto.
SRM is derived technology from the DRM that started in the original Z33 350z automatic. So for all those manual drivers who loooove there SRM feature. Thank auto technology for that evolution in manual transmissions.

FPenvy

i just spotted this thread and figured i'd throw in my 2 cents.

i got about 10k miles on my 7AT and i love it. i test drove both 6MT and 7AT before buying and the manual just felt rough to me and my goal is to have a GT-R soon anyways so getting some practice on the paddles seemed better to me (and not having $100k at the moment) lol

but performance wise i agree with people saying the AT feels like it has more torque. also the ECU learning is a real thing. i drive mine in manual mode 98% of the time and after awhile it feels like the car knows my driving style now on upshifts and downshifts. the only thing on the negative side with mine is if i'm not paying attention and let the revs drop too low from 4th to 3rd and downshift it will go straight to 2nd since it is already in the process of dropping it into 3rd for me for lettin the revs die too much. but thats a driver error not the tranny or ECU.

i recently raced my one friend in a 09' genesis with full racing intake and exhaust so we are about dead even HP and TQ wise. his being a 6MT mine being a 7AT he talked a lot of smack on it.....until i smoked him lol

don't get me wrong i love both manuals and autos but when you look at every major high performance car now and recent past they all have paddles and dual clutch gear boxes. a manual tranny has to be a custom order anymore. this is where i don't get where the strictly manual guys bash the auto guys.

cant we all just get along? lol

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In all fairness, there is ONLY one person here that is making BIG negative statements off of a test drive. Obviously he went in hating autos from jump, so he has a jaded view, plus as an auto owner, we can do things in our cars you can't dream of doing on a test drive. So again, he won't know. Even if he drives it for a day? He can't feel the real auto characteristics. Like mentioned before. It takes time for throttle response to be in sync with the auto. Like a week or 2 or a couple hundred miles of driving. Once the car is broken in well. After 5k miles things really flow well together...
Most OG's here don't hate. And we do get along. Auto bashing, we hope ended in 2010? Don't take imports comment as bashing. Its more like serious misinformation and lack of any experience with VQ mounted jatco automatic transmissions.

FPenvy

i was just being funny with the getting along comment lol everyone on here gets along pretty well in my experiences. when i test drove both cars i had to do it at diff dealerships since the auto test drive i pissed the sales rep off since i was a bit "rough" with it lol luckily with the stick the dude just trhew me the keys and my friend and i took it for a 15 min test drive without the sales rep lol bad choice on his part. i ran that Z through the gauntlet to see if the manual was more me than the auto.

i'll stand by my auto all day

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