Stick Shift or Automatic

[skyman8081]

A little late, but, if you don't drive, don't post.  Simple really.

[MrX]

in fact, I do drive. people crazy, that is.

mr X

[Orethrius]

I never drove stick...

but go with automatic so you can hold your beer in one hand and still drive.

Actually legal in Texas.  

[Kintaro]

Yea, I hear McDonalds are getting the Senate to ban Manual Shift.

[Refalm]

I never drove stick...

but go with automatic so you can hold your beer in one hand and still drive.

You can do that with manual too. Takes some practice.

[KernelPanic]

You can do that with manual too. Takes some practice.

Just have to steer with your knees.
No problem with wimpy modern over-servo'd racks

[choasforages]

stickshift. its a control thing....im really good at keeping cars on the road at insane rates of speed. and not rice wagons either........ive only wrecked when i was doing the speed limit, and ive recovered from wicked 110mph skids in the rain....in a family sedan. got ahold of my chevy berretta and sadly buried my license in legal troubles........just a word of wisdom

[skyman8081]

but you didn't vote...

[Annorax]

Lifetime barred license.... guessing my opinion doesn't mean shit here.

But still, automatic.

[Orethrius]

Lifetime barred license

Dare I ask how?

[toadlife]

I own a Ford Ranger and a Hyundai Sonata.

I wish the Ford had a manual transmission, for the reasons Orethrius pointed out, but it's an automatic. I bought the truck from my mother six years ago, when I desperatly needed a vehicle, so I didn't have a choice back then.

As for the Hyundai, the V6 model (which we have) only comes with automatic, and the four cylider model which has a manual option was WAY underpowered. My wife can't drive one anyway, so it was out of the question. The hyundai has the 'shiftronic' transmission which is basically a psuedo-manual transmission with an automatic clutch. It lets you change the gears when you want, but it won't let you do insane things like throw it into 1st gear while doing 90mph, or blow up the engine by redlining the engine. It's actually pretty cool. If you throw it into manual mode, you can just leave it alone and it acts as sort of a 'performance mode'. In regular mode, the transmission will shift well below redline if you are at full throttle, but in manual mode it waits till it redlines to shift. This helps out acceleration a bit.

[Refalm]

Just have to steer with your knees.
No problem with wimpy modern over-servo'd racks

Cupholders help a helluvah lot you know

[Annorax]

Dare I ask how?

Accident, insurance refused to cover, the nephew of the head of the DMV was in my car. He promptly barred my license permanently and asked a judge to give me an "appropriate" sentence. I got a $2000 fine and a 2 year suspended prison sentence... for a $500 traffic ticket.

[KernelPanic]

Accident, insurance refused to cover, the nephew of the head of the DMV was in my car. He promptly barred my license permanently and asked a judge to give me an "appropriate" sentence. I got a $2000 fine and a 2 year suspended prison sentence... for a $500 traffic ticket.

Shitty.

[Orethrius]

Accident, insurance refused to cover, the nephew of the head of the DMV was in my car. He promptly barred my license permanently and asked a judge to give me an "appropriate" sentence. I got a $2000 fine and a 2 year suspended prison sentence... for a $500 traffic ticket.

 [OFFTOPIC]That's judicial bias, and if I were you I'd get an attorney once I could afford it and appeal the verdict. Better yet, file a lawsuit for finding of fact against the judge and get him thrown off the bench, that's bullshit.[/OFFTOPIC]