Please, do your part. Save the Manuals.

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^ No. I've heard the choke and trim thing before.

heh really? I thought I was quite clever making that up!

But really, we're not talking about shifting. We're specifically talking about the clutch, right? DSG and the like don't take away shifting. Clutch pedal actuation seems like a pretty good parallel to trim and choke.

Of course, with electric cars, shifting's pretty much gone too. I doubt any of us has driven one, but don't you think it would be hard to argue that the Tesla roadster or the like isn't a fun to drive car? If 20 years from now just about all cars are electric, and even cheaper ones have rubber melting torque available from 1 RPM, are much more reliable, simpler to maintain and understand, and you can do motor swaps in an afternoon, are we still going to be that sad about the loss of the shifter?

Kind of reminds me of people complaining about CVTs and wanting them to "shift", so the manufacturers make them do that. "No, I don't want the engine to operate at peak torque and accelerate the car as quickly as possible, I want it to shift!"

Off topic really, we're talking about the clutch.