I like fun cars with a real manual gearshift. The everyday cars have been automatic for many years. When I had the AMG for a weekend I was impressed by the paddle version. But this is also a modern automatic with double clutch. You get the feeling that the car is doing what you tell it to do. With our everyday car it is still a conventional automatic, good enough to stand in a traffic jam but without driving fun in the real sense.
Emotionally I prefer a real gear shift to a paddle shift. No matter that I am slower and like to shift gears myself with love and appropriate time. It is most enjoyable when I shift the 1973/911 completely softly and without scratching. I love it. It's like shifting a school bus, so long are the movements.
