Transmissions: Automatic vs. Manual

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-22 11:46pm

I don't/can't drive, but when I was learning I prefered a console-mounted automatic stick shift. I can't operate a manual transmission if I had a gun pointed to my head: I just can't get the damn thing to work. And I hate dash-mounted automatics. Stupid fucking little lever, give me something I can actually operate...

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-05-22 11:47pm

Give me automatic. I wanna just be able to go, while fucking with as little as possible.

*has driven twice in his life*

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-05-23 12:08am

Manual. Automatics are:

Boring as all hell
Less efficient
More expensive to purchase
In possession of a good deal less passing power, especially at freeway speeds
Far more expensive to mantain
Much less fun

Any questions?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-05-23 12:47am

Howedar wrote:Manual. Automatics are:
Boring as all hell

Less efficient

More expensive to purchase

In possession of a good deal less passing power, especially at freeway speeds

Far more expensive to mantain

Much less fun
Any questions?

Danke...pretty much sums up how I feel about automatics...especially when someone supes up their sports car which for some ungodly reason has automatic transmission...I weep a little in pain.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-05-23 01:00am

Automatic. The stop-and-start driving in much of WNY where I live continually drives my cousin (who has a manual) insane. I'll take my automatic Mustang and be going now, thank you.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-05-23 01:29am

What are these automatic transmissions you speak of?

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-05-23 01:44pm

I can drive both without much of a problem, but I prefer auto for city traffic.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-23 01:46pm

Beowulf wrote:What are these automatic transmissions you speak of?

It's what we Earthlings use when we don't want the car to go kaput every time we shift gears...

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-05-23 01:50pm

What gets me are these people who are in heavy rush hour traffic with a stick shift, smoking a cigarette and talking on a cell phone all at the same time. GRRRRR! Typically it's a woman in an SUV!

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-05-23 01:51pm

Manual all the way.

On the Rare occations that I get behind the weel of an automatic I will always! puch down the breake and attempt to do a gearshift for the first 10min or so...

Over here there is two classes of driving licenses. If you have automatic you can't drive a manual shifted car but if you have the standard license you can drive any car.

The automatic license is intended for disabled people.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-05-23 02:02pm

my Accord is an automatic

however the lease on my boringmobile is up in january, at which time i shall aquire a shiny black Volkswagen Jetta VR6 with a manual. varooom!

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-23 02:19pm

Faram wrote:The automatic license is intended for disabled people.

Ouch. If I lived in Sweden, I'd be insulted...

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-05-23 03:39pm

I can drive both, but I prefer manual. When driving, I like to have as much under my own controll as possible.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-05-23 03:48pm

Automatic all the way. I can't hold my coffee and shift, and as far as I'm concerned, a machine works for me, not the other way around. People carping about the 'lack of control' of an automatic don't know how to properly use one, especially the post 80's models with the overdrive selector.

And while clutches are cheap and easy to fix, the funny thing is they always need fucking fixing. Automatics (in my experience) are expensive and problematic to fix, BUT they almost never, ever need it.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-05-23 03:55pm

Coyote wrote:Automatic all the way. I can't hold my coffee and shift, and as far as I'm concerned, a machine works for me, not the other way around. People carping about the 'lack of control' of an automatic don't know how to properly use one, especially the post 80's models with the overdrive selector.

And while clutches are cheap and easy to fix, the funny thing is they always need fucking fixing. Automatics (in my experience) are expensive and problematic to fix, BUT they almost never, ever need it.

Yes, an automatic is a bitch to fix. But ideally, it only goes kaput once, and when it does, it's new-car-shopping time.

A manual tends to go as often as a 93 year old man with a bladder the size of a peanut. Especially if it's driven by the sort of moron who likes to use his or her clutch to hold the vehicle on a hill, or doesn't like shifting fast enough to hear the engine go "whunk!" as it engages.

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-05-23 03:56pm

Coyote wrote:Automatic all the way. I can't hold my coffee and shift, and as far as I'm concerned, a machine works for me, not the other way around. People carping about the 'lack of control' of an automatic don't know how to properly use one, especially the post 80's models with the overdrive selector.

Control to me means that I say in which gear I drive, and not my car.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-05-23 04:00pm

Manual, it feels good changing gears.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-05-23 04:01pm

Cpt_Frank wrote: Control to me means that I say in which gear I drive, and not my car.

Automatics can be placed in a specific gear also. People are just lazy and tend to leave it in "D" in situations where a lower gear is needed, like icy roads. Having first learned to drive on a manual, I'm am actually still instinctively reaching for shift whenever I need to slow down, so using the automatic transmission manually is somewhat "automatic" for me.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-23 04:09pm

My brother and dad shift gears with automatics all the time...

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-05-23 04:16pm

For most situation, an automatic is better, but I still like a manual transmission more for some reason.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-05-23 04:29pm

My dad has one of those manu-matic transmission thingies; as for me, I drive auto.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-05-23 05:05pm

Coyote wrote:And while clutches are cheap and easy to fix, the funny thing is they always need fucking fixing. Automatics (in my experience) are expensive and problematic to fix, BUT they almost never, ever need it.

My '86 Mazda 323 got 189,000 miles on the factory clutch. They only need replacing if you're a fucking idiot who can't drive.

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-05-23 05:09pm

Howedar wrote:
Coyote wrote:And while clutches are cheap and easy to fix, the funny thing is they always need fucking fixing. Automatics (in my experience) are expensive and problematic to fix, BUT they almost never, ever need it.
My '86 Mazda 323 got 189,000 miles on the factory clutch. They only need replacing if you're a fucking idiot who can't drive.

LOL I second that one.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-05-23 05:15pm

Heeheehee... or if you have a fucking Jeep with hydraulic clutch that constantly goes to shit...

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-05-23 05:41pm

Automatic all the way. It's called progression people. I don't watch a black and white tv or listen to an 8-track either.

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