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SoCal Alan said:Imagine if the world had never seen/experienced a manual transmission before and Porsche just invented it. Can you imagine the uproar on Rennteam with people asking how in the world can we operate a clutch with the left foot and the manual gear shift with the right hand. And how unnatural a series of movements which would be required to go from 1st gear to 2nd gear? And how in the world can we expect to synchronize the lower left part of our body with the upper right of our body. And to do so in an efficient manner as we are traveling at a high rate of speed. Forget about downshifting. How is using a manual transmission, 'natural'. I'm not even going to mention how we have to "push forward" the clutch to shift gears forward under maximum g-forces with our body being pinned to our seats.


True - it does seem pretty complicated, but it is fun