Consumer Reports not happy with the Sonic LTZ 1.4 turbo 6-speed manual

[wylee]

I wonder how those bozos would feel about a 600 class sport bike. If one doesn't care about fuel economy they can simply not go into 5th or 6th. I'm sure the car will easily handle legal speeds in 4th. They may have a legitimate gripe about the shifter; I have not driven one so I don't know. Griping about shifting down 2-3 gears and then raving about the automatic tells a lot more about the driver than the car I think.

I can say the one car that I would rather drive an automatic version of is the 10th generation Corolla, but that had nothing with shifting. The throttle response delay (I'm guessing around 3-400 milliseconds) makes for very slow shifts.

When had my RSX-S, I can recall dropping from 6th to 3rd a few times and I don't remember being bothered by it. I was bothered by 2nd (or maybe it was 3rd) gear in that car though; in cold weather it was pretty hard to get it in and it often ground going in in warm weather.