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Originally Posted by silver04rollas
If anything desperately needs a 6 speed manual, it is either the IS350 or IS-F since they both are the only "performance cars" in Toyota lineup today and both only work with automatics and could use a more steep final drive and overall shorter gearing a manual can only offer.
It could be possible Toyota will introduce the IS350 and IS-F coupes with a 6 speed manual and develop an optional dual-clutch 7 speed electronic manual to replace the automatics.
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Is it not possible to offer a steep final drive ratio and shorter gearing with an automatic transmission? And isn't the final drive ratio a function of the final drive differential and not the transmission? And why would it not be possible to offer shorter gearing in an automatic transmission?
