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06-17-2013, 09:09 PM

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WhiteHorse3.7

Join Date: Feb 2012

Location: Kansas

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Originally Posted by CJinCNJ

Ah, Gus! That's the rub! There may be times when you don't have the luxury of time "to do it slowly."As I mentioned in my first note, it was back in 67 when I fell in love with how a Stang handled... I was in the back roads of SW PA and suddenly there was a 90-degree left bend in the road. I swung the wheel, dropped from 3 to 2 and popped the clutch. The back end swung around so beautifully that my buddy (whose car it was) and his girlfriend in the back seat never missed a beat. Heaven help anyone caught in a predicament with a new 6-speed!

I'm going to have to disagree as well, I have had my (stock) '12 V6 6-speed on several long, twisty back roads in northern Arizona and the Colorado Rockies, and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it! My favorite drive thus far has to be a 400+ mile loop I took with a friend of mine last summer starting in south Denver, up through the mountains to I-70 near the pass, then north through Winter Park and Trail Ridge Road (>12,000 feet) and finally back down the hill into Longmont. My buddy was driving a 1988 BMW M3 (one of the most storied driver's cars of all time, and a full 1000 lbs lighter than our 'Stangs), and I had no problem keeping up through the twisties

Never once did the shifter seem to "get in the way" so to speak, and there were several enthusiastic downshifts into 2nd when driving hard into a switchback. Maybe it's because I've never driven many other manuals on a daily basis, but IMHO this shifter is pretty well-behaved if you trust the internal springs. Maybe I should try the MGW someday though...