Although I drove a sixteen seat automatic chevy in Florida this is the first automatic I’ve had, took a while to get used to putting it in park & not neutral. 
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Automatic cars
- Thread starter derek kelly
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The first automatic car I ever driven was during my Floridian driving test !!!
Luckily it was straight forward …. The longest bit was waiting in line (you didn’t book dates or times) you just turned up early in the morning and wait !
The parallel park on the wrong side of the road was the trickiest bit ….. I passed with compliments from the tester, I then told her it was my first ever time driving an auto AND on the wrong side of the road !!!
Luckily it was straight forward …. The longest bit was waiting in line (you didn’t book dates or times) you just turned up early in the morning and wait !
The parallel park on the wrong side of the road was the trickiest bit ….. I passed with compliments from the tester, I then told her it was my first ever time driving an auto AND on the wrong side of the road !!!
Driving the chevy taught me to forget my left foot, nearly went through the windscreen
Not used the parking assist yet, not sure I’d trust it.
been there done that, first time I drove an automatic I tried to change gear and screeched to a halt, fortunately no one was behind me
I had to get used to getting into Malc's automatic and telling myself don't change gear, and had to remember to change gear when back in my car
I've had an automatic for about 8 years now and wouldn't willingly go back to manual. The old Borg Warner 3-speeds that were in everything way back when made fuel consumption horrendous but the variation with the modern stuff is only 1 or 2 mpg. Slow maneuvering is the big bonus for me - traffic queues and parking using the foot brake and tick over rather than clutch and accelerator.
Did she have big tits?
This one’s got a hold button
Posh git.
Mine has an automatic parking brake and automatic hold when stopped on a hill so there.
Whike on the subject, I was trying to disable the motion sensor on the car alarm while it was on the ferry..Never tried to do it before, followed the instructions in the manual without success. As I had nothing better to do I Phoned the help line who told me that the motion sensor is automatically deactivated when the GPS indicates the car is on a ferry. How clever is that.
Wish they had included it in the manual though.
Hand brakes are so last year……
You actually read a manual? What sort of man are you?
Drove an auto for a year for work and hated every minute of it, lots on mates have auto's, I have drove them all and hate em all just as much,
The last one i drove being a mates 4 year old M something or other panzer what an utter piece of shite that is, the electrics are about as useful as tits on a nun and the gearbox is psychotic eg smooooooooooth to kill kill kill in the blink of an eye swiftly followed by ooh a hill lets try all the gears in some random order and see what happens
The last one i drove being a mates 4 year old M something or other panzer what an utter piece of shite that is, the electrics are about as useful as tits on a nun and the gearbox is psychotic eg smooooooooooth to kill kill kill in the blink of an eye swiftly followed by ooh a hill lets try all the gears in some random order and see what happens
Fair comment.
In fairness it was the online version on that screen thing in the middle of the dashboard.
A friend, who has never driven an automatic, recently bought an Ingnia (awful thing) and insisted on a manual gearbox. I asked him about this when being driven around by him and he said ‘manual gearboxes are all part of the driving experience”.
i can only believe ‘the driving experience’ involves being in the wrong gear at least 50% of the time.
i can only believe ‘the driving experience’ involves being in the wrong gear at least 50% of the time.
As someone mentioned above modern autos are nothing like the old three speeds that were prevalent for years.
Eight and nine speed boxes are the current standard, with the option of manual changes via paddles or sliding the selector over to full manual clutchless sequential changes.
You won’t get me back in a manual. Wouldn’t be surprised if availability continues to fall away…I will stand corrected but I don’t think the majority,possibly all, BMWs have a manual option.
Eight and nine speed boxes are the current standard, with the option of manual changes via paddles or sliding the selector over to full manual clutchless sequential changes.
You won’t get me back in a manual. Wouldn’t be surprised if availability continues to fall away…I will stand corrected but I don’t think the majority,possibly all, BMWs have a manual option.
Never heard of such lazy arsed poofery.