By the early 2010s, if you wanted a sports sedan with a slick-shifting manual transmission, the pickings were already getting slim. The Germans were once the champions of this arena, pairing the transmission option with powerful, smooth engines and optional AWD systems. However, you couldn’t miss the shift towards automatic and dual-clutch options, both of which offered greater durability, power, and faster lap times. If they were moving away from the transmissions, who in their right mind would be running towards them?
