[emorbimefed]

Sport-tronic, Manu-matics, etc. are never as responsive as a Regular MT. Although Infiniti and Lexus are catching up with their AT's (F1 style paddle-shifting and pretty responsive) and I'm sure someday all cars will have these hybrid AT/MT trannies making the good ol' fashioned "stick" obsolete.

As far as the ACURA RSX goes I have only driven the Type-S which is standard MT. I couldn't tell you how responsive the Sportronic Transmission but I can tell you that my fiance owns a New Bettle with Sports-Shifting and I was not impressed at all... With the RSX being a somewhat 'entry-level' car I would assume that it would be very similar to that of the Bettle.

How does it work? There is a regular AT drive mode like in any other car with AT... but if you feel like taking control of the shifts yourself: The shifter can slide over to the manual shifting mode (marked with a "+" and "-") and you can shift up and down to your hearts delight.

Having driven a Type-S, I was impressed with the comfy interior and sound-system... and I can comment that the sound-system was actually pretty nice. That of-corse depends on what kind of sound package you get...

I would really push the dealer's to let you test drive-one and let you come to your own conclusion though. When it comes down to it you ae going to be making the payments. Not us. Make sure it's the car you want.


On a side note I heard that this is the last year the RSX is going to be released...