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87 Turbo II
If it's the base lancer (non EVO), I am not going off of any facts here(ton's of fact's later, but just for this next statement), but considering they're like $13k or $15 cars, I'm willing to bet their Auto transmissions with paddles aren't really manu-matic. It's just going to be a standard auto, with little ECU shift overrides. (real facts start here)The good shit that's in Volkswagens Porsches, the GTR, and supercars is a dual clutch semi-auto manu-matic, that actually lets you select gears, with engaging and disengaging clutches, rather than the standard clutch pack driven usual auto. The usual slushbox boring economy automatic transmission either uses a throttle position sensor, or a cable on the throttle to tell the car's ECU to shift an automatic, when you slam your foot down, it normally trigger's a "kickdown" into a lower gear to help you accelrate, this is sluggish, and part of the reasons automatics suck. When you put a cheap econobox car's auto transmission into "manual" mode, all you're doing is moving the kickdown and upshift triggers from the TPS, to some paddles, and most likely, if you drive normally, the car will STILL shift for you even if you don't touch the paddles, I knew a VW bug that would autoshift in manual mode, but just give you more time between shifts to let you shift it yourself. The system is really half-assed way to tell the buyer they're getting a "sporty manual tranny with their automatic gearbox". Now I could be wrong and Mitsubishi could have put the good tranny from the EVO into all models, but I doubt they'd put a REAL sequential paddle gearbox into a sub $25k car.
Long story short, manual FTW.
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