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To me driving a sports car should be engaging. Having the shifter in your hand and blipping the throttle as you heel and toe on the downchange while you push the lever forward is a well sychronsied event, and a learned skill. A manual gearbox is as engaging as it gets when you are drving in a sporting manner. I am at the moment teaching my 16 year old how to drive a manual in my Boxster. How to approach a corner and when to downshift, accelerating out of a corner and using the steering and throttle inputs to exit quickly. He loves it. He also realises you don't have to be going at break neck speeds to have fun. A good old manual gearbox is just plain fun.
And for the road nannies, my son's race karts and have a very good idea of speed and reading the 'ahead' road conditions. So please no ' should you be teaching your kids to drive fast' speeches. If more people taught their kids to drive fast properly there might'nt be as many useless deaths.
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