I had to buy an auto for two reasons.
My daily commute of five miles to work and five miles home each day takes 30 minutes
any time of day because it is ALL stop and go traffic, literally: you cant get the car into third gear until you turn into my neighborhood...
Normally, I would never let that be an issue, I'd just buy the manual trans car, but my left knee is shot, and wouldn't take working the clutch like that... I wish I had bought a manual LS3 car, and just not driven it to work, because while I actually like the auto transmission in my SS, I just cant begin to drink the koolaid regarding the alleged performance of the L99 saddled with AFM... if the auto SS came with LS3, Id keep this car forever.
Good news is I just paid off the 2012 SS and it only has 12.5k miles on it, so in a couple of months Im either gonna spend some bucks (headers/tune) and banish the AFM, or find what I really want, an IOM '13 ZL1 w/manual trans...
