automatic or manual

my car is automatic. call me lazy.

Manual all the way. Don't trust automatic cars...

I can't drive. but it's defo a manual I can't drive..

Seeing Takuma Sato picked out of a wall because his F1-quality automatic, downshifted for no reason half way round a corner, made my mind up forever, altough it was mostly there already

two thirds of cars here are autos. when you buy used, you go with what you're given.

you buy what you're given? i want to start selling stuff out there!

choose manual.

Ronald Kirsch wrote: two thirds of cars here are autos. when you buy used, you go with what you're given.

you lot all have autos because everthing from wheelbarrows up in your insane country is fitted with a fucking HUGE V8,so huge that most mortals will strip a gearbox in 2 months, you're worse then the flamin yanks, apart from the fact your cars can slow down and turn too.

Holden=Vauxhaul+250bhp

Automatic unless I had a real sports car. I have replaced 3 clutches at $500 per incident in my time. Never an automatic transmission. However, I wish my XJ-S had a manual because the dinosaur GM T-400 transmission is too big, too heavy and too fucking hot. Sure it is bullet proof but the fucker produces too much heat and its cooler line likes to develop leaks.

i learned to drive in a manual, but i haven't driven one in years and i wouldn't trust myself with one today. so automatic, it is.

Spotnick wrote: Obviously automatic...

Anybody who knows me would tell you I'd be a living danger if I had to manipulate a stick while I'm driving

Anyways, to be honest, people driving manual over here are a very small minority... most of them probably do it because it's cheaper, and some are purists and would tell you it's more enjoyable, but not in the city while they drive 95% of the time in the city...

To be honest, I live and breathe with my automatic + cruise control.. remember, Quebec is a huge highway land :D

if I had to drive manual tomorrow in the fookin 25cm snowstorm they announce, I'd probably stay home

P/S: I never drove manual, so I can't really say...

Excellent.....you never pointed out (being the only other sod on this forum who knows what an f1 car is), that Mr Sato is in no need of any help at all in finding the Armco. BTW, did I tell you Jacques was quickest last friday (altogether now "it's only testing")

auto, only because I've inherited this car, and the last two cars I've had from friends or family.

I've learned manual, and I'm frightening with it. Probably best I stick to auto.

youre lazy. God bless manual

Manual. It's natural. When i drive my mum's automatic jeep i end up nearly killing everyone, slamming on breaks, looking for the clutch, and touching people up looking for the gear stick.

Manual, the only time I ever drove an automatic I nearly broke my nose, on the steering wheel, when I went for the clutch :)

Drove manual transmission forever and switched to automatic this year. It feels so good not to have to shift all the damn time, especially in traffic.

78681 wrote: how in God's name would one be able to manipulate a standard transmission, the stereo, a cell phone, a cup of coffee and a Sausage McGriddle all at the same time?

:) you have to try someday, hehehe

78681 wrote: how in God's name would one be able to manipulate a standard transmission, the stereo, a cell phone, a cup of coffee and a Sausage McGriddle all at the same time?

Manual for me, though I've never driven an automatic. Anyone who's used to manual, and who's driven an automatic, say it's a nightmare to get used to. I find it hard to imagine driving without using a clutch & gear stick though.

Has to manual. Nothing like a good blast over the moors to blow away a hangover.

Although I've tried the Audi/VW DSG 'box which is shit hot, truly innovative engineering.

DSG?

I rather like the idea of a sequential box, or pseudo sequential. Those flappy paddles (if only the ones in road cars changed gear when you touched them not when fucking HERBIE9000 under the bonet reckons it's ok to) or the rally/tourer style pull pull pull push push type.

And F1 cars should have 3 pedals and an H-hated shifter...thet are meant to be the best drivers in the world right? so the best runners in the world use a bike? do the best cyclists use mopeds?

one thing I don;t get though...whay Yanks NEED auto's...it's not like the roads look like the nordschleiffe or special stage 12 of rally finland or the back road from Bangor to 'Ards. The have runways for roads.

78681 wrote: how in God's name would one be able to manipulate a standard transmission, the stereo, a cell phone, a cup of coffee and a Sausage McGriddle all at the same time?

Thank you Jeff, for allowing me to share the water I was drinking with my keyboard and monitor...

I drive auto now, have done manual in the past though.

More like bipedal these days, but manual in the day.

i did learn on a manual, and have a manual licence,but for some reason all the cars we've had since coming to Oz have been autos.

Manual.

The only choice for true drivers.

:\pimp3:

Auto isn't really driving as far as I'm concerned - manual all the way in the Suzuki Swift I say! CTB

Autos are just for mums in the Chelsea tractors aren't they?

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depthcharge wrote: Autos are just for mums in the Chelsea tractors aren't they?

:\pimp3:

keep the insults coming.

No need to take it personally Ronny, we don't just have an issue with you...

It's with all women who drive autos!

:\pimp3:

don't generalise. some of them can drive too. its just the ones in 4wds (suvs for you north americans) who often are dangerous.

Ronald Kirsch wrote: don't generalise. some of them can drive too.

Ladies, I think you've been officially damned with faint praise.

For his next trick, Ronny will review 'Women and VCR Programming'.

:\pimp3:

depthcharge wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: don't generalise. some of them can drive too.

Ladies, I think you've been officially damned with faint praise.

For his next trick, Ronny will review 'Women and VCR Programming'.

:\pimp3:

the modern woman can operate technical appliances as well. i don't know what kind of females you've been hanging out with.

Wow, that's a relief. I sure was getting sick of all that confusing button-pressing every time Neighbours came on!

How are they at taking the rubbish bins out onto the street? Any headway there?

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depthcharge wrote: Wow, that's a relief. I sure was getting sick of all that confusing button-pressing every time Neighbours came on!

How are they at taking the rubbish bins out onto the street? Any headway there?

:\pimp3:[/quote only the ones with partners are incapable of doing that.

Manual is standard here. I never learned to use automatic.

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

:\pimp3:[/quote only the ones with partners are incapable of doing that.

And what are they like at quoting on a forum, Ron? Any good with them pesky square parentheses?

I was going to go for a more cerebral reply there, but it seems unfair to go into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

Good to see all the big issues are being taken to task here though - up next; electric shavers vs. disposables - the grudgematch. Intellectual pistols at dawn. CTB

CTB wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

:\pimp3:[/quote only the ones with partners are incapable of doing that.

And what are they like at quoting on a forum, Ron? Any good with them pesky square parentheses?

I was going to go for a more cerebral reply there, but it seems unfair to go into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

Good to see all the big issues are being taken to task here though - up next; electric shavers vs. disposables - the grudgematch. Intellectual pistols at dawn. CTB

i was a wee bit inebriated.

what's this intellectual highground stuff. this is BHCD, where we discuss all the important issues i e talk crap. if a topic is below your obviously high standards, then just ignore it.

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

CTB wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

:\pimp3:[/quote only the ones with partners are incapable of doing that.

And what are they like at quoting on a forum, Ron? Any good with them pesky square parentheses?

I was going to go for a more cerebral reply there, but it seems unfair to go into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

Good to see all the big issues are being taken to task here though - up next; electric shavers vs. disposables - the grudgematch. Intellectual pistols at dawn. CTB

i was a wee bit inebriated.

what's this intellectual highground stuff. this is BHCD, where we discuss all the important issues i e talk crap. if a topic is below your obviously high standards, then just ignore it.

BHCD? Be Hind Closed Doors? It's not 'intellectual highground', Ronno - it was just a wry comment. And not everyone talks crap here either; many here are also capable of using capital letters occasionally. And in the spirit of of your sage advice, if you don't like my comments

Ronald Kirsch wrote: then just ignore it.

CTB

CTB wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

CTB wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

:\pimp3:[/quote only the ones with partners are incapable of doing that.

And what are they like at quoting on a forum, Ron? Any good with them pesky square parentheses?

I was going to go for a more cerebral reply there, but it seems unfair to go into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

Good to see all the big issues are being taken to task here though - up next; electric shavers vs. disposables - the grudgematch. Intellectual pistols at dawn. CTB

i was a wee bit inebriated.

what's this intellectual highground stuff. this is BHCD, where we discuss all the important issues i e talk crap. if a topic is below your obviously high standards, then just ignore it.

BHCD? Be Hind Closed Doors? It's not 'intellectual highground', Ronno - it was just a wry comment. And not everyone talks crap here either; many here are also capable of using capital letters occasionally. And in the spirit of of your sage advice, if you don't like my comments

Ronald Kirsch wrote: then just ignore it.

CTB

I believe I have more than my fair share of no-crap talking posts, just look at my comments re the Sydney riots. Why the vitriol? I never had a go at you.

I have my 'Ring wings

2 laps on a proper death track, in my own car, un-insured

Been on a corporate shin dig tonight where some guy was trying to tell me 'all about' the Nurburgring on a Playstastion thingy, he knew the course.

On his fookin PS2

He did the 'Karusell' on a joystick.....I fookin did it in me own motor.

Did he listen?

nope

dick

People would be better off driving with both feet. Look at how many stupid fuckers drive into buildings and crash. They all say I meant to hit the brakes but hit the gas instead. If one foot was used for the brakes and the other for the gas the reaction of hitting the brakes would fall upon the foot that always hits the brakes not the one that hits the gas.

Barney Army wrote: I have my 'Ring wings

2 laps on a proper death track, in my own car, un-insured

Been on a corporate shin dig tonight where some guy was trying to tell me 'all about' the Nurburgring on a Playstastion thingy, he knew the course.

On his fookin PS2

He did the 'Karusell' on a joystick.....I fookin did it in me own motor.

Did he listen?

nope

dick

My friend

i'm a sim junkie a you know...been round the ring a trillion times....and i wouldn;t go near the real thing. Furthermore had i talked over you with my "rimmer's risk stories" of combat on a PS2 LOL (yeah, lot of REALLY accurate sims on that)....rather than perhaps sit their wide eyed and listen to your REAL tale of glory, perhaps with the odd pertinent question like "does a road car get airborn a flugplatz"..."what's that big compression like when you finally reach the bottom of the valley after the tight right that exits under a bridge (sorry name missing from brain record)"...I would not only have forgiven but positively expected your forehead and my nose to meet like twat meets Armco round that place.

remarkable resttraint

twist wrote: People would be better off driving with both feet. Look at how many stupid fuckers drive into buildings and crash. They all say I meant to hit the brakes but hit the gas instead. If one foot was used for the brakes and the other for the gas the reaction of hitting the brakes would fall upon the foot that always hits the brakes not the one that hits the gas.

Because of all the hours I've logged on sims and arcade games, I'm a dead man in a 3 pedal car (part of the reason I favour "smart manual" boxen.)

However even among the very bset drivers there is still a little debate, tho it would seem to stem mainly from a re-learning thing with drivers raised on 3 pedals.

Manual for me. All my cars was manual.

Driven some automatic cars though, but it was boring.

manual transmission is more challenging! and it doesnt consume as much gas as automatic does,thats what my mechanic says anyways......auto/manual,as long as i have a car,its not an issue for me...

Manual, Automatic's are for people who can't pass their driving test

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

I believe I have more than my fair share of no-crap talking posts, just look at my comments re the Sydney riots. Why the vitriol? I never had a go at you.

Fair do's, Ron - I'm not exactly innocent in the gobshite stakes here either; no offence intended.. CTB

CTB wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

I believe I have more than my fair share of no-crap talking posts, just look at my comments re the Sydney riots. Why the vitriol? I never had a go at you.

Fair do's, Ron - I'm not exactly innocent in the gobshite stakes here either; no offence intended.. CTB

O K then.