Toyota’s EV Manual Transmission Vs. Hyundai Ioniq 5 N’s Artificial DCT: How They Stack Up
My life changed a little bit when I first eased off the clutch and got Toyota’s prototype, manual-equipped Lexus UX300e into motion. It changed even more when I intentionally “stalled” it a moment later, and further still when I learned I could rev-match and toe-heel the thing just like my MR2 at home. It changed because I had so expected to hate this pantomime manual transmission, little more than a shifter attached to a joystick and a clutch pedal bolted to a potentiometer. When I found myself genuinely enjoying it, I had to re-think a few things about myself and what exactly I was looking to get out of the driving experience. ( You can read my impressions about that here .) 114 Photos But I really hadn’t expected an opportunity to test out another synthesized manual transmission just a few weeks later. And yet there I was, a mere 10 days after my trip to Japan, pulling out of Seoul, South Korea, in a pre-release Hyundai Ioniq 5 N that offered its own way of simulating