The usual comparison is to compare the made-by-Mercedes manual transmission shifting with BMW's made-by-ZF manual transmission shifting.

When you have had THAT experience, you'll indeed compare the Mercedes to a truck.

One suspects the 21st century Mercedes manuals shift better, but we get so few of them. In fact if you check you'll find that Mercedes doesn't put manuals behind any of its larger engines in any markets. None in AMGs either, of course.

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Kent Christensen
Albuquerque
'07 GL320CDI, '10 CL550. '01 Porsche Boxster
Two BMW motorcycles