I’ve been saying forever that it’s all about the gearbox.
You want the fun and interaction of a manual box?
Excellent. But it will always be significantly slower in these measurements.
It’s not slower in gear, but when each gearchange takes 0.5-1.0 seconds instead of less than 0.1 seconds, and there are 6 instead of 7 or 8 gears what do you think is going to happen?
In my perfect Emira world there would be a supercharged V6 version with the DCT gearbox.
That would be the best combination of all, IMO.