Originally Posted by Heb80
I made a comment about that to the salesman and he told me to try the autostick feature... verdict: garbage.
My experience with the SLK32 and so with the SRT-6 is different. I think the manual shift option work fine especially when driving fast up- and downhill or passes in the Swiss mountains. After a while you get used to it, you will know when it shifts and you will be able to manipulate the shifting points by acceleration pedal and shifter. It works very good. I nearly always use it.
Originally Posted by Heb80
With the C6 so close in price, its availability with a manual tranny, the C6 far exceding the performance of the SRT, and the C6's slightly better gas mileage along with no premium gas requirement, I'm still not sure if the SRT is worth the $47k.
Maybe true for you but not for Europe. Here price of the C6 is more than $10k over the SRT-6.