Forum newbie - looking for advice between MT and AT

[mitchb]

Originally Posted by ImportConvert

Congrats and lucky you for a first car! Just be careful with it. I know 330hp isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, and that's about how I felt about my first sports car, but damned if that car wasn't the fastest thing on the planet the night I lost it. That is what broke me of owning automatics, btw. It downshifted in a corner, snapped the rear-end around, and the rest is history. After that, I was manual only in a sports car. No more suprises.

THANKS for that info ! ive never had or thought about that either .i will be sure to have my auto in manual mode from now on when getting down n around.