My ex-girlfriend's friend (female) has a Dodge Stratus R/T Coupe with the manumatic. She let me drive it just to show her how the thing works, cause she couldn't figure it out. Might I say it was rather worthless. I wanted stop using it by the time we made the 20 minute trip home. The shifts were slow and pointless. Leaving it in regular auto would actually improve performance IMHO. She tried driving it later and about killed herself trying to shift it getting off an exit ramp, but maybe its just her. Anyway, thats my $.02