I'll have to agree with mbepic. I don't understand the point of an auto-stick. I had a 300M for a loaner car and it had the auto-stick feature. I didn't like it at all. That was the only auto-stick car I've ever driven. A car with an auto tranny is going to shift at the best point for fuel economy if your just cruising, and it'll shift at redline if you're accelerating quickly, so why the need to manually shift an auto?

The only benefit an autostick has over a regular auto that I can see is that you can downshift when slowing down for a corner so that it is in the optimal gear for accelerating out of the corner, but technically you could do this with a regular auto too. In any case, if you're on a track and downshifting in corners, shouldn't you be sitting in a manually tranny car to begin with?

Don't get me wrong, I understand people who buy the automatic because they don't want to shift the gears of a manual. But the "auto-stick" I feel is really just a gimick.