ja404
Well-Known Member
Driving an automatic makes me car sick
Driving an automatic makes me car sick
Nice B6.
Nice DOGLEG 190e, don't see many of those.
There has been a of good points made but lots of ego-inflating douchebaggery as well.
I'm going to go ahead and stick my neck for autos. Not necessarily in favour of autos but in their defence. I own an automatic, I have owned many automatics(and standards), and they've done their job well. My current car is a auto because it gets better mileage than the same car with a manual on the highway. My old lincolns were auto beacuse there was never a option for a standard tranny in them. And if there was it would have been idiotic.
Manuals are great, they're fun to drive, but for 98% of the people out there, 98% of the time it doesn't really matter what kind of transmission they have.
My dogs, or anything that doesn't appreciate the slight jerking back and forth, also hate shifting and doing all the work. CVT, specifically, does have it's place in the automotive world.
A manual would do nothing to make this car better at what it is - actually, it would detract from the car. Does that mean this car has no soul? Only a fool would think so. Also, I think that you would be hard pressed to find a car with more character than this Caddy.
Lol, I was considering a B5, but then my heart trampled my brain and I decided to get a classic over luxury.
Lol, you mean arguing with Bline_Io?
As you said, "it doesn't matter" to "98% of the people out there, 98% of the time", that means that they are willing to let it be, not prefer it.
Autos are merely "okay" and will be sufficient for driving, but it's like walking around with a crutch or walker no one really one really wants one unless they injured/are missing a limb or otherwise handicapped.
CVT sucks at economy and sucks at performance. It's like Communism, sound great in our heads, but doesn't work in real life. It's just a cool thought that most of us have thought of when we were little kids.
I would totally love a stick shift cruiser.
I wouldn't call myself a completely inflexible manual purist, but I do have a genuine "fear" that one day the flappy-paddle crap will replace the manual as we know it today
Driving auto just annoys me. It shifts at the wrong time...
I will say that it's very easy to do a bad CVT as well. The one in the Dodge Caliber made me think the transmission was broken.
And that's is fine, but you guys do plan on moving up in the world, having kids, a better job and what not? Face facts: the manual transmission will be obsolete in twenty years; that is just the ugly truth of it. Do you really want to drive a 2030 Fiat Punto .1 litre because that is the last example of a car in the future with a manual?
As you said, "it doesn't matter" to "98% of the people out there, 98% of the time", that means that they are willing to let it be, not prefer it.
Autos are merely "okay" and will be sufficient for driving, but it's like walking around with a crutch or walker no one really one really wants one unless they injured/are missing a limb or otherwise handicapped.
CVT sucks at economy and sucks at performance. It's like Communism, sound great in our heads, but doesn't work in real life. It's just a cool thought that most of us have thought of when we were little kids.
I would totally love a stick shift cruiser.