Originally Posted by Franc Rauscher

And with a manual tranny, you can feather the clutch to give you exactly the downshift braking you want, exactly when you want it. And you can vary it to the conditions of every turn and twist in the road.

It is a whole nuther axis of control over the vehicle.

Try that with an auto stick

I did and it wasn't better in the SRT. In fact the shifter kept changing the gears because halfway thru a turn the forces make it hard to shift precisely. Hence the advantge of paddle shifters.