But a stick shift offers the advantage of being able to change how you shift gears depending on the situation.

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Jeanette suggests that employees work for 50 minutes of the hour and use the other 10 minutes to change focus or shift gears.

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There's an automatic mode to BMW's SMG, and it happens to be a very pleasing system, with adjustable shift speed so you can dial in how smoothly gears change.

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