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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Single-clutch AMTs were not so popular on light-duty vehicles in my country, yet they're still fitted to some trucks here.
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They're definitely an... acquired taste. I was aware of how these ones felt before buying the Smart as I'd driven several previously, and I got used to it fairly quickly (even to the extent that most of the time I just left it in automatic mode rather than using the paddles).
But ultimately it could be frustrating - partly knowing I could shift better myself in a manual, and partly because there were certain driving conditions where it'd get caught out by gearing. I always found the gap between 2nd and 3rd a bit large, so you'd get situations where it'd find 3rd too tall and shift down, only for it to be at high revs in 2nd and immediately shift up again, and at the slowest, most confused shift speeds that gearbox was capable of, you'd end up with four seconds of not really going anywhere.