[OFFICIAL] Manual v. Automatic Thread

[luigi90210]

Originally Posted by wstar

It's really not just as easy. There's a clutch pedal. The point of getting an auto and putting it in M-mode 24/7 is you get the driving benefits of a manual (being able to select the correct gear, which a normal auto in Drive never gets right for performance driving), but you don't have to be a heel-toe wizard to get smooth shifts. SRM on our 6MTs negates the heel-toe thing anyways, but still - why have one more pedal to worry about operating delicately to get the same result?



See, it's comments like these that turn this from a friendly debate into a "**** you you're not like me" sort of war.

no it is just as easy, the clutch work is nothing and i have been in LA traffic off the 405 with my Z and still no complaints about the car or the transmission, just the traffic

and comments like the ones i made are true, i dont know if you notice it but when i ride my bike around town, i see so many people driving automatic cars, slamming their brakes 20ft before every red light and every parked car and to top it all off, the person is usually texting, or dialing the phone while driving

with my MT, im always paying attention to the road because if i dont, ill stall out my car, i am not tempted to text while driving because i have to change gears manually, im not tempted to answer the phone when i am driving because i have to keep one hand free to either hold the steering wheel or shift

im not saying anyone here is like that, what i am saying is AT just feed that kind of bad behavior and it is something that needs to stop because it puts everyone at risk, not just the distracted driver but i digress

I have owned/own a few AT cars before, my GS-T Spyder Eclipse is an AT, the 05 altima sedan i use to own was an AT, there is nothing wrong with driving an AT, just i dont shift those cars manually because its an automatic, if i wanted to i could but then what was the point in buying it if i was going to drive it like a manual 24/7 pretending it is something that it is not

maybe that is just one of the mysteries in life ill just never understand but i dont think you or anyone else for that matter can make me see eye to eye with shifting a AT manually 24/7(i can understand using it to downshift to pass up a car or to get a sporty feel in a canyon but to shift it 24/7 as if it was a manual is just beyond me)