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Originally Posted by jstein55
Only really Genesis is left then if you require luxury, otherwise, the hot hatch category has some pretty good choices, but yes, if four doors are a requirement, its a pretty limited search sadly.
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The shame is Chevrolet has the chassis and the drivetrain, the V6 Camaro manual transmission drivetrain bolted right into the ATS and now the CT-4/CT-5. If Ford had any balls it could make a 4-door sedan out of the Mustang chassis. There is no reason BMW can't still build a N/A in-line 6 with a manual transmission. Once BMW started building gas-guzzling X5/X6/X7, they had to make the 3-seriers a turbo-farting 4-banger. Once you turbo an engine, you have to mask it with a computer-controlled automatic transmission. And when you want to turn the ultimate driving machine into a self-driving ultimate boring machine, there is no reason to keep developing manual transmissions.
Most of the issue has to do with US DOT crash testing regulations. With the pro-business Executive Administration currently in power, now is the time to lobby the US government to change the regulations to allow for computer-modelling of crash tests so a chassis can have several different drivetrain combinations without expensive crash testing of each version.
Hot-hatches were "hot" when I was 18 and that was a loooonnnnggg time ago
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."