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Originally Posted by MINIz guy
No manual, no care.
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Ok. Gonna get my head chewed off for this question. I've never owned a manual car, but know how to drive one (at beginner level) and have driven one for a few months.
But for those that LOVE manual, please explain why this is so important given that the newever manumatics (as LeMans put it) have improved so much?
I'm just curious because we have a new 5, it has the shift levers on the steering wheel and it's pretty darn fast at letting me keep the car in the gear I want and getting up and down fast. I can't imagine myself getting into a gear any faster with a stick and having to deal with the clutch. Even in my X5 where I shift manually with the lever, it seems faster too. What am I missing? Besides the joy of fiddling with the stick and clutch or the coolness of the complexity of driving a manual (all things that I envied in my college days).
As for the new X3, love it. But will have to wait for LCI when they get rid of the amber on the front corners. Why couldn't they just add reflectors like the new LCI 3 sedan, 5 series or X5? Saving it for LCI is kinda stupid. That's probably the only real smart thing Mercedes got right in their cars. From the get go, it looks acceptable (to my standards).