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By no means is the Auto with paddle shifter better than a regular auto, it's just tiptronic, same stuff as the Prelude and CSX, they just put the upshift and downshift buttons closer to the driver, and name it paddle shifters. The "real" F1 paddle shifters would be on Ferrari, and you can get similar effects with BMW's SMG and VW's DSG, Lamborghini's E-Gear
I think the neatest one is the DSG though, there's a seperate clutch for 1,3,5 than 2,4,6 so the next gear would be "ready" when you do upshift or downshift so it's very smooth, but the bad part is that there's no rev limiter developed yet for the DSG trannies, so you can easily and accidentally over-rev and break your tranny, according to my friend that works at VW, a whole new tranny will need to be shipped from Germany to replace your broken one, think about the wait if you did that to your next VW GTi...
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