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I hate automatics. I don't know how I'll live ~6 months without a stick this coming fall/winter.
The V70 is decent under sport mode - but then it's a bit twitchy. And if you ever decide to give the car some gas but not a lot, it will sporadically do what seems like a double downshift, jerk everyone in the car and go nuts.
Manumatic mode is half decent, but there's lots of lag and most annoyingly, it doesn't realize or take into account the fact that one already downshifted. Example: You are comming up on a turn. You slow down and decide it's time to downshift to say, 2nd. Well, the car, in its infinite wisdom/lag, had already determined that you rpobably need to downshift and completely ignores that you already did, so it downshifts again to 1st. Ugh.
...and this tranny is the best "conventional" slushie I've ever driven (except for the one in the C63).
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