Save the manuals! BMW M3 vs Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing

“Where did all the manuals go?” asks Jethro Bovingdon as he drags his poor, withered left leg behind him. The rise of the EV and the proliferation of the auto has seen manuals all but disappear from UK shores. America on the other hand, is positively rolling in them. Weird.

So we grabbed two of the most-exciting manuals on sale in the US that we don’t get back in Blighty, and set about proving once and for all that manual beats auto. To do this we required several things: Jack in a competitive car with an auto-box (OK, we might have fiddled this bit), an empty race track, and some skids. Lots of skids.