I've been driving manual transmission cars for several decades now, a lot in traffic jams (almost every time I'm on the road) and have had no issues with the clutches or my left knee or my left leg in general. I would rather drop dead than own an automatic transmission car again. That written, the TR-6060 transmission in the V8 is absolutely phenomenal, the clutch is heavy duty and grabs just right at half way point, it's the best clutch and manual transmission I ever drove, and I drove a lot of them. In spite of being system engineered for the race track, the V8 is a great daily driver; my colleagues knocked that one out of the park. In the interest of being fair, my other car has almost 206,000 km and both the transmission and the clutch are still original from the factory, and I'm the first and only owner of that vehicle.