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Old 08-22-2013, 03:35 PM   #60
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Nice thing about a manual is that you can "hot rod" around and get the sensation of speed with out really speeding vs a automatic which you usually have to mat the accelerator to the floor for a while to feel all of its 580hp.... but by then you are usually going fast enough to be arrested. Sure you can keep the auto in a lower gear but you still miss out on all the little nuances of going through the gears with little hints of WOT before, during and after shifts so you can hear all the popping and blurbing coming from the exhaust vs the consistent linear roar from the auto car. I'd get an auto if it was going to be a heavily modded daily driver that would see a lot of time at the drag races and a manual if it was going to be a fun weekend car with light mods and no track time.

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The ZL1's 0-60 time is 2 tenths of a second faster with the automatic, so the manual might "feel" faster but the auto "is" faster. And the paddle shifters will pretty much recreate the shifting of a manual (except no clutch).
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