Manual Vs Automatic

by **Guest** on Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:26 pm

shite

by **Major Grumbles** on Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:01 pm

So I take it the number of letters in your reply equate to your IQ level?

by **Guest** on Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:12 pm

No. Yours.

by **Major Grumbles** on Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:25 pm

by **Guest** on Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:11 am

yr avie is bnp or national front or summat, innit? :roll:

by **Major Grumbles** on Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:36 pm

I'm neither a member of the BNP or NF so I wouldn't know.

by **minigirl** on Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:23 pm

Major Grumbles wrote:I'm neither a member of the BNP or NF so I wouldn't know.

i can see where guest is coming from though - your signature "arbeit macht frei" means "work brings freedom" or "work makes one free". this slogan was placed at the entrances to a number of nazi concentration camps, including auschwitz. i can't quite figure out what your avatar is, but it reminds me of a few white supremacist symbols....

by **Major Grumbles** on Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:23 am

If Lorenz Diefenbach's book "Arbeit macht frei" (1872) was later cynically misused by the Nazis that's not my problem, the main hero of the novel, through regular work, arrives on the path of virtue. It was adopted in 1928 by the Weimar government as a slogan extolling the effects of their desired policy of large-scale public works programmes to end unemployment. In my role of recruitment I end people's unemployment hence it's use in my sig - if you choose to associate the phrase as a German Nazi phrase used over their concentration camps then do so. I associate it with it's original intention and therefore find it appropriate.

by **minigirl** on Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:21 am

sounds reasonable enough - but i don't think too many people would be aware if its earlier use and, as a result, would assume the worst.

i don't have a problem with it though......

by **K-Babe** on Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:05 am

Ive got a 03 plate Ford Fiesta 1.4TDCi in silver. Thats a manual and i really like that. Thats my baby!!

My boyfriend has a Chrysler 300C, its so big its a really long walk round it!! LOL Thats Automatic and i do like driving that its good fun, first time i drove it i came up the slip road and put my foot down and im used to cars with less power, i hadnt prepared myself for the 5.7 V8 in this thing and it FLEW!!!!! And i was like "WTF!!?!?!" Worlds going Backwards!!!!

Lawls.

by **K-Babe** on Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:36 am

It really depends on the car. Small engines Auto's are horrible. Auto's are better suited on big cars.

My mum used to have a Ford Mondeo 2.0 Ghia X Auto, 1999 model i think and that was excellent. Ford make such good autoboxes its like it knows exactly what you want it to be doing.

However ive driven a Peugeot 406 2.0 LX Auto and that autobox was cack. Every single time you take your foot off the accelerator it leaps down a gear. Even if you go from 70-69 on the motorway it jumps down cos it thinks you're trying to come to a stop. I dont like cars with engine braking on them.

My boyfriend's Chrysler 300C, being an American car is always going to be Automatic and that is very good on that one. Bit clunky in town though i find, as it doesnt like the traffic inducing 15mph and it jumps between gears constantly as you're going along. Thank god its smooth changes though.

I drive a manual Fiesta (03 model) and i really enjoy driving that. As i do a big blend of motorway and town driving it suits me perfectly. On the motorway its like having an auto as you dont come out of 5th for the entire journey. And in town i can just trundle in 2nd where the 300C would be jumping between gears. Nowhere near as bad as the Peugeot auto though, that was like being shot trying to drive that in town.

Also as i think i said in another thread, manuals are popular in the UK cos of high fuel prices and manuals tend to do more mpg.

by **Sharon den Adel** on Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:46 pm

I have my learner permit in automatic, which means I cannot drive manual for as long as I have my licence. I chose automatics because they are easier, and I don't think I could get the hang of changing gears so often, and in heavy traffic it would be annoying to change up and down gears all the time.

by **minigirl** on Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:12 pm

Sharon den Adel wrote:I have my learner permit in automatic, which means I cannot drive manual for as long as I have my licence. I chose automatics because they are easier, and I don't think I could get the hang of changing gears so often, and in heavy traffic it would be annoying to change up and down gears all the time.

it certainly would be a lot quicker and easier to learn in an automatic, so you will have your licence a lot sooner. i can still remember on my second driving lesson, coming around a corner and seeing this very steep hill right in front of me - i just stopped the car, started crying and refused to drive any further!

as for changing gear being a nuisance, i've only ever driven manuals (except for a couple of the office cars at work) and it doesn't bother me. i suppose that after you've been driving manuals for a while and have the hang of it, you don't really have to give gear selection much thought - it comes (i was trying to think of a different word to use here but can't) automatically.

by **Sharon den Adel** on Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:57 am

Hmm, I've spoken to kids I work with who have only just gotten their licences, and they insisted on driving manuals, because they claim that in an automatic you have 'nothing to do'...

by **Bobin** on Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:54 pm

Sharon den Adel wrote:Hmm, I've spoken to kids I work with who have only just gotten their licences, and they insisted on driving manuals, because they claim that in an automatic you have 'nothing to do'...

an automatic gives you one free hand to work the radio, especially in the city where you shift every 30 seconds

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