Manual fun

[brian5814]

Bought my gt two weeks ago ordered it in September it’s been 16 years since my last manual car and I am having so much fun, i’m glad we have American muscle you can shift manually. I would have considered the Corvette, but I didn’t want an automatic and I know they’re faster but I’m not racing. I am enjoying the car, manual muscle is visceral. I live in Sarasota fl and the traffic is terrible this time of year no problem with the shifting .

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[TcarterGT2024]

Bought my gt two weeks ago ordered it in September it’s been 16 years since my last manual car and I am having so much fun, i’m glad we have American muscle you can shift manually. I would have considered the Corvette, but I didn’t want an automatic and I know they’re faster but I’m not racing. I am enjoying the car, manual muscle is visceral. I live in Sarasota fl and the traffic is terrible this time of year no problem with the shifting .

I have a manual GT too. I love it. No comparison to the Vette’s automatic. The transmission in the C8 is ridiculously fast shifting and precise.

 

[Alan Applegate]

Technically speaking, if you're driving s 10R80 in manual mode, you're manually shifting. As I've mentioned before, the days of rowing your own are coming to a close. A certain percentage of drivers won't like that fact, but there it is.

 

[Mspider]

Technically speaking, if you're driving s 10R80 in manual mode, you're manually shifting. As I've mentioned before, the days of rowing your own are coming to a close. A certain percentage of drivers won't like that fact, but there it is.

Not sure what you are trying to say here. I guess its great that a manual with a clutch is still a option for people who want one right?

 

[Alan Applegate]

Yes, but I'm of the opinion their availability is waning. As the numbers dwindle (and they are by any measure), manufacturers will cease supplying them at any cost.

 

[Mspider]

Yes, but I'm of the opinion their availability is waning. As the numbers dwindle (and they are by any measure), manufacturers will cease supplying them at any cost.

Well yeah everyone knows that. Again its great that Ford even has it has a option.

 

[JohnD7]

Yes, but I'm of the opinion their availability is waning. As the numbers dwindle (and they are by any measure), manufacturers will cease supplying them at any cost.

Another reason to make the DH my last pony car and a keeper.
I could do a DCT with paddles, wife's C8 has one and it is pretty slick, but no way I would have a slushbox.

 

[Trap]

Bought my gt two weeks ago ordered it in September it’s been 16 years since my last manual car and I am having so much fun, i’m glad we have American muscle you can shift manually. I would have considered the Corvette, but I didn’t want an automatic and I know they’re faster but I’m not racing. I am enjoying the car, manual muscle is visceral. I live in Sarasota fl and the traffic is terrible this time of year no problem with the shifting .

Have to totally agree, without the manual, the car loses it's appeal (to me), if all I could get was an auto I would be looking at different options all together, The manual allows me to be engaged with the car in a way that I truly enjoy.
Congrats on the new Mustang, hope you get to enjoy for many years

 

[Redback]

Agreed. Bought my first Mustang 6 months ago, and I wouldn't have if it there was no manual option. Manual is magic. Every shift is bliss.

 

[Instant Action]

Technically speaking, if you're driving s 10R80 in manual mode, you're manually shifting. As I've mentioned before, the days of rowing your own are coming to a close. A certain percentage of drivers won't like that fact, but there it is.

Take rate for the manual for the '24 Mustang GT and DH is 27% which is pretty good so I doubt its going away anytime soon

 

[The dark 1]

6 speed here.
I wouldn't have bought a DH if it didn't have a manual, for the price i would have bought a Vette.
I love my Mustang on so many levels after 3 weeks

 

[Paul's stable]

Technically speaking, if you're driving s 10R80 in manual mode, you're manually shifting. As I've mentioned before, the days of rowing your own are coming to a close. A certain percentage of drivers won't like that fact, but there it is.

Yup because these kids today can't shift with a cell phone so they don't like it and these idiots can't learn to drive manual.

 

[young at heart]

Technically speaking, if you're driving s 10R80 in manual mode, you're manually shifting. As I've mentioned before, the days of rowing your own are coming to a close. A certain percentage of drivers won't like that fact, but there it is.

Yeah, uhhh no. Not even close, technically or otherwise. I have both and love ‘em both but there’s really no point of comparison.

I’m not suggesting one is better than the other, it’s nothing more than a preference. But driving a 10R80 in manual mode is pretty much what we did with a Turbo-HydraMatic back in 1967 when equipped with a Hurst His n’ Hers shifter, only more gears. Like it or not it’s not the same.

 

[edw794]

Yup because these kids today can't shift with a cell phone so they don't like it and these idiots can't learn to drive manual.

It is really not so much the shifting, though a driver does need to know what gear to use and when, it is really the clutch work that makes these automatic boys conk out where they can't even get going.

 

[Gr8ful]

I too had to have the 3 pedals. I had get one before you can't get one.
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