Its not very' involving' when crawling in traffic jams in a manual gearbox car , continuously balancing the clutch on a hot summers day...its actually a ' pain in the butt' especially if you are tall and your lega and feet struggle for any room .
It's a simple choice when it comes to a modern auto you can choose to use or leave the flappy paddles alone or not as the case maybe or just leave it in auto, but you have a choice. However, when it comes to a manual gearbox there is no choice whatsoever, it will always be a manual gearbox and all of its foibles. I've driven flappy paddle Ferrari's and a good old fashioned 330GT2+2 with its heavy clutch that needed thighs built like tree trunks and slow balky change especially when cold manual gearbox........I know which one I prefer every time and its not the 330.
I tend to agree.
I have owned high performance manuals and high performance paddle shift autos. I can't really say a manual is genuinely 'more involving'. In a low powered car a manual is good for wringing out the last drop of performance, but in a high powered car, it's less relevant. Paddle shift boxes have also moved on a lot in the last few years and it's actually quite hard to find high performance cars with a manual shift.
