I find with mine its pretty smooth, you can potter along slowly if you want to, but drop down a gear plant your foot and all hell breaks loose.Never failed an MOT and just passed again with no advisories.The one thing that lets down my 2wd Saff is the T5 gearbox. I have got the hydraulic clutch conversion but compared to a modern car the gear change is still not smooth. When I get back into my daily Renault Laguna 2.0 the gear change feels so easy and light it takes me a couple of minutes to get used to it again!!