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Automatic cars

Duck n Dive

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These days I don't think you'll find any seriously performing sports car that's manual.

The modern auto is way quicker and more effective that any driver with a manual box.

The auto double clutch boxes are awesome
 

slim63

Never surrender
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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.
From recent experience it still beats being in the wrong gear 75% of the time

And replacing a manual clutch/gearbox is a few hundred quid rather than the price of a small suburban house in leafy surrey, ask any unfortunate modern Volvo owner :(
 

andyBeaker

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From recent experience it still beats being in the wrong gear 75% of the time

And replacing a manual clutch/gearbox is a few hundred quid rather than the price of a small suburban house in leafy surrey, ask any unfortunate modern Volvo owner :(
my Stretch S80 was fabulous, don’t knock them!
I got £500 in PX. Mistake.
 

Pow-Lo

Make civil the mind, make savage the body.
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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.
Mrs P’s 2 Series Gran Coupe is manual and her last 2 was a manual. The auto was quite a few quid more.
Never heard of such lazy arsed poofery.
Just because it’s there, doesn’t mean I use it. I kept stalling when I first had the bike as she seemed (to me) to need a load more revs than normal to pull off, so I gave up and use the rear now.
 
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