« Reply #11 on: 20 September 2021, 19:04 »
Welcome Andy
It’s great to hear of someone actually ordering a manual Mk8.
Today I spent over an hour sat in a traffic jam in my DSG and around an hour in the other direction sat in an ID.3
Both of those are the ideal thing for sitting in mostly standing traffic. Except the aircon in the ID is a bit poop and the petrol uses too much fuel keeping said aircon running on a hot September day (because some idiot forgot to bring a bottle of water).
However, when you really want to drive (or more to the point - traffic permits you to drive) there’s no beating a manual sports hatch. You can be in exactly the right gear at any moment, no DSG lag, no screaming an inappropriate gear, no fiddling with paddles which don’t allow you to change more than one gear at a time…
And that interaction between driver and machine is just irreplaceable.
Full marks to those of you sticking to your guns and getting a manual.
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