CD tests 2010 TL 6 speed, 0-60 5.2 seconds, 13.8 quarter mile
#16
Lexus Test Driver
Ok, so how do I drive a manual, shift and talk on the cell phone and smoke a cigarette at the same time . Acura, leave the manual to the exotics and make some cars that people want to buy.
#20
Lexus Test Driver
#21
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Because some of us like heel toeing and rowing the gears. It's amazing that cars can do a lot of this stuff for you nowadays (like the 370Z with rev matching downshifts), but there's a certain satisfaction you get by doing it yourself.
Btw, how many really good drivers do you know who can't drive a stick? I don't know any.
Honda manual trannies are great. Too bad they're not attached to proper sports cars.
Btw, how many really good drivers do you know who can't drive a stick? I don't know any.
Honda manual trannies are great. Too bad they're not attached to proper sports cars.
Lexus manuals just aren't great and I much prefer an auto with paddle shifters.
#22
Good points. I don't WANT a Lexus manual. I still have one, I've driven them all. They are simply average in execution. Honda makes some of the slickest shifters and its physics, they have no torque so the mechanics create a much slicker shifter.
Lexus manuals just aren't great and I much prefer an auto with paddle shifters.
Lexus manuals just aren't great and I much prefer an auto with paddle shifters.
I don't really like paddle shifted autos either unless it's something more along the lines of a SMG unit. The paddles on true autos seem to be quite slow and unresponsive. I know the ones in my gf's IS350 are pretty much useless. I'd prefer they just left it a regular auto without the paddles to be completely honest.
Anyway, base price of $43k for this thing? Uh, no thanks...
#23
Lexus Test Driver
Lexus and Toyota have always been about sales numbers, if there is no demand for a manual IS350, they will not make one. A optional manual transmssion? thats a good one. In the old days, all cars comes with manual and auto transmissions are usually a $1000+ option.
#24
What the????
ha ha ha ha... I laughed so loud when I read this. I think I dumped in my pants too. Are you kidding, ES with a manual? So you want Lexus to make a manual on the ES for ONE customer? No one on this planet would think to buy an ES with a manual, like entering a donkey in the Kentucky Derby... it's still an a**.
#26
Lexus Test Driver
The TL is one face lift away from being one heck of a car. Why doesnt Acura see this? Sometime I wonder about the upper management of Acura, they really need to fire everyone in charge and start over again.
#27
And yes, I fully understand that manuals were standards and auto were "options" with a premium in the "old days." Actually, in cars today that offer both a manual and automatic, autos are still $1,500+ usually.
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Lexus Test Driver
#30
Lexus Fanatic
even if you removed the beak, i can't think of one grille that would go well with those headlights.