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One area Peugeot is superior among many other brands is Manual Transmission. Even when others ditched manual, Peugeot not only continued to provide their performance cars and standard cars with manual, but also continued to improve on the transmission type, which makes them super fun to drive.

Today, I drove a Peugeot 3008 Turbocharged engine with 6MT (6-speed Manual Transmission) and was reminded of how much I missed this excitement ever since I last drove a Peugeot 508 Turbo with same 6MT and same engine too. It makes me wonder if Peugeot truly designed these EP6 engines to run also with the automatic transmissions they attach on some of them, or if they were afterthought. Even though most of these EP6 Turbo engines don't make power like the V6, the 6MT on them makes a lot of difference, such that you won't bother much about the lack of V6 aggressive tone. For example, the 6MT on the 3008 Turbo I drove today produced the same click feel the V6 6MT produces too. Interesting part of it is, you don't hear the click sound, you feel it on your palm, as it automatically registered as click sound in your brain at the same time your palm feels it. The position of the gear lever sits higher than earlier Peugeots, giving it a sporty shift position while you are glued to the seat without leaping forward to upshift and downshift while in action. Again, the improvement wasn't only in and on the transmission, but the rest of activities that produced the term "Stick-shift" were factored in designing the entire vehicle with these engines. Which begs the question again, was the automatic transmission on vehicles with these engines an afterthought?

The diagnosis and repair video on the 3008 will soon be published.

Ikenna351
04/04/2026.

You can also drive the automatic in manual mode. You just won't have a clutch pedal.

cardoctor:
You can also drive the automatic in manual mode. You just won't have a clutch pedal.

To compare using manual mode in an automatic transmission to the stick shift process in actual manual transmission doesn't technically match. Your position is better directed to those who haven't experienced both long enough to believe such claim.

Ikenna351.