Fake manual transmission is basically like playing a simulator.
I’ve only ever driven a petrol manual and a petrol automatic. Both very similar cars other than the manual was a 1,200, and the automatic was a 1L. I wildly prefer driving the manual one, granted most of my driving is in the country where it’s fun to throw it about the gears a bit and there isn’t tedius clutch control in traffic. I just find it a lot more fun, especially when rev matching etc, it just feels more rewarding to drive.
However, if I was driving an electric car, I wouldn’t want it emulating a petrol manual, I’d want to try embrace it for what it is, and have fun with the faster acceleration instead of the gears. My main issues with current electric cars is they all seem to have massive bloody screens. To me this is the ideal interior for a car, its not to everyones taste but it provides actual physical gauges for everything I want, a screen small enough that it’s not distracting, but big enough that it’s useful for android auto, and I can’t believe I have to say this but actual buttons I can click without taking my eyes off the road, feeling that the button has been clicked.
Manuals will always be unmatched for driving pleasure, but electric and hybrid cars usually don’t have automatic transmissions, they have CVTs, which are better than automatics IMHO.
They don’t have gears to switch between, so you usually don’t feel any shifting, just regular progression. If you input maximum acceleration they may reach the redline without changing the ratio and then drop down suddenly, in that case you feel sort of a shift, but that’s rare if you drive normally.
Most EVs don’t even have CVTs. They often don’t even have multi-speed transmissions at all. The type of electric motor used produces maximum torque at 0 RPM, so it no longer needs a transmission to prevent stalling and its torque-RPM curve is so flat that a multi-speed transmission would reduce performance under most driving conditions.
I get really annoyed by car journalists obsession with manuals. I’ve driven and owned manual cars in my life, and they are cool, but also inconvenient, annoying to drive in traffic, and now objectively slower and less efficient than a modern automatic.
Fun on a backroad is not a huge factor in buying a car for the vast majority of people. And even a person like me, that enjoys a spirited drive, I don’t want to deal with a manual the other 85% of the time.
I just want them to recognize that and stop putting manuals on a pedestal.
This kind thing, is pretty dumb as well.
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