Originally posted by AliasJerkââ??¢:
Originally posted by Kerry2Kool4U:
Even some newer American ATX's have the capabliity to out shift a manual driver.

I think I'll live to see the day when manual transmissions are a thing of the past.



sadly.

Take the 5 sp auto in the Mazda 6. What a brilliant transmission, it shifts unlike any other car I have been in, you can hardly feel it shift, even at WOT, and its got 4 gears and an over drive, just like every other modern day 5 speed manual. it shifts right when I would shift in a 5 speed. Its basically a 5 speed manual without the 3rd pedal...



Wow. The 5-Speed Auto in the Mazda6 is widely regarded as an absolute piece of crap. It shifts unpredictably, very slowly, has the same jerky shifting that plagued Ford ATXs for years, has very poor reliability, and overheats so badly that transmission coolers are a must-have mod. Trade-Ins of 5-Speed Autos for the FAR superior 6-Speed Auto in '05+ Mazda6s were and still are common. In the transition from '04 to '05 when both 5-Speeds and 6-Speeds were on the lots, people were encouraged to go with the 6-Speed if they could get the price within $2000 or so partly because the 6-Speed is just so much better, partly because the 5-Speed sucked that bad.

2003 Mazda6s 3.0L MTX Webpage 2004 Mazda3s 2.3L ATX