by Porker » Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:38 pm
Martin
It's because I regard the ability to change gear, including adjusting the engine speed, as being an enjoyable part of the driving experience. Having the car do it for you removes some of the pleasure of driving for me*. To be honest, I'm guessing that this is the case though, since I've not driven a car which is equipped with this capability.
I'm also, in general, not a fan of the car making undemanded control inputs.
Now, this debate could run and run, since I do like ABS brakes and, to some extent, stability control systems. However, these only cut in (or should only cut in, IMO) when the situations already got pretty bad, so they don't impact on my normal driving. "Auto-rev-match" would however be ever-present, and would remove the need to do something which I enjoy, so it probably wouldn't work for me.
* I'm going to qualify that further - for cars which I drive primarily for pleasure, it's not something I would want. As you say, I believe the Z's system is switchable however.
regards
P.