KMH001, Reckon you must've got a crook one. I've never had a complaint with mine, love it in fact, and have even jiggled the linkages around a bit while tinkering in that area with no adverse effects. I don't normally reef it fast through the gears anyway, except circuit days might be a bit more urgent, and even then I still haven't found it wanting. But the car picks up so fast that I never stress over trying for fast gear shifts; most of the time when I've blasted past someone in a passing manoeuver, I'm often trying to wash speed off pretty soon anyway, before I run out of road or passing lane, not try for more velocity in a higher gear, unless I've started my run in 2nd, perhaps. I find it similar to my old Ghibli actually. That had a monstrous truck-like gearbox (nice and authoritative but bloody heavy and slow), but such was the blast in each gear (from the 4.7 quad cam V8 and 4 twin-choke Webers) that it was like being on the end of a huge bungee cord and I used to enjoy the slow shifts, as did the passengers, when they felt the temporary hesitation in the shift before being rammed back in their seats again. I don't think the MPS were ever intended to be DSG-like in their shift speed, and I'm sure the triple synchro is protecting the boxes against any attempts by racers to make it so. Way back when I came on this forum, I said I didn't think the MPS (3 or 6) were drag light cars but more GT types, as in high-performance 4-door touring. I'd say almost every car I have driven has not had such a pleasant shift as this car, with perhaps a few exceptions which pretty much elude me right now - but I think maybe the Alfa 1570 Berlina, my Renault 25 GT and the lovely ZF box in my old Quattroporte, though it had to be warm before it would accept 2nd gear happily. Once warm it was like a switch. But the rest of the manual cars I've had aren't a patch on the MPS shift-wise. As for Holden and Ford boxes........
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