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Originally Posted by SiGNAL748
Why do you think most muscle cars are autos? Because they push out so much power, manual transmissions would be inefficient for the application. (Gearing also has a lot to do with this)
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For a good example, though they aren't typical muscle cars, take a look at Mercedes-Benz' lineup, and their performance models in particular, i.e: the CL65 AMG puts down 604hp & 738 lb-ft
(insane, i know). They're all automatics. You can't even request a manual trans in any of them. Mercedes gave the same reasoning for this as SiGNAL did above; a manual trans just wouldn't work as well as an automatic in this application. What that has to do with the topic of performance exhausts on autos, i don't know, but there ya go.