Bossman, here is where the internet keyboard puts the conversation at a disadvantage. I typed out what actually happens in motions, you typed a LOT about the intracasies and how quick it should be.

Let's all agree that were all athletic and coordinated. Funny though, i never meet Porsche owners in person who come any bit close to being natural athletes. I can shift and drive as well as anyone. I never needed instruction on either a car or motorcycle, just did it, no grinding.

Yet I can't match my tranny, i have the 4 speed ZF in mine, that shifts in a blink of an eye with the gas floored the whole time, no lift, and programmed to shift at HP peak and hit TQ paek in the next gear.

The only thing that may account for SUPPOSED faster times for some cars manual vs. auto is the shorter gearing of the manual. It's not a perfect world, a good auto will beat a manual.