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Originally Posted by Hancock

Yeah it is certainly very frustrating. I read somewhere they expect to sell 80/20 autos to manuals. So why in the world would you not have the mags test an auto as well? They even pushed out the manual's EPA numbers first, and we still haven't heard the numbers for the auto. Very frustrating.

I suspect they don't want autos being reviewed because the magazines would (1) compare it to real DCTs in the competition and complain, and (2) be tough on the car because it isn't a manual. Reviewers are generally very pro manual and anti auto so the reviews will likely be more favourable in manual form.

I would bet that we won't see any auto reviews until another transmission (8 speed, DCT, etc) is available in the future.