Omg A Car Thread! And Poll??

[Somebody]

Hey yes, me.
Just wondering what is your preferred transmission.
and
just answer the poll accordingly


sorry, poll haters.

[Matt]

Manual. It's what i've got used to. Automatic would be strange. It's also for lazy people

[pAk]

I drive a manual - it goes faster, and you have more control in the style you drive.

I want semi automatic - with the paddles on the wheel, that would be cool

[chiquita chad]

automatic! i can worry about the ladies in the car rather than shifting

[Psycho Puppet]

Yep, I am lazy. Automatic for me.
I know once learning something it will eventually become natural but hey....one day I will learn manual.

[Anacific]

Automatic

[Lain]

automatic, it's a lot easier for beginners like me.

[missyob]

I have an automatic now, but I prefer standard transmission. I feel more in control of the vehicle. Once you get past 45 mph though it is all the same. I do a lot of highway driving so it does not matter as much anymore.

~ Missy

[Aeroe]

i had an old civic with a stick
some woman sold it to me for a couple hundred

other than that my jeep is automatic and i'll stay with it since i'm a lazy hoosier.

[eleet-2k2]

I like automatic.

[Somebody]

My opinion (it doesn't matter but whatever):
I prefer manual.
Mainly because it provides me with something to do while driving, instead of combing my hair, shaving, reading, eating, masturbating, etc. while driving a car.
More focus on the road.

[Psycho Puppet]

But sooner or later that will become natural to you...and you probably won't notice that you are doing it. According to my bro heh. Which is what a music system is for.

[Jstalilwyrd]

Manual. Definitely.

Of course, I drive two automatics at home since my parents are lazy. I can drive stick, but until I make my own kinda money will I invest in a manual tranny.

[distortion]

Hmm... I can drive both with ease (auto... will excessive ease hehe) but for a daily driver around here with the insane traffic I'd rather have an automatic. For a evening/recreation/racing?/etc car manual all the way, but around here for me to be on the stick gettin hectic in the CRAZY traffic every day, eh I'd get someone killed in about 25 seconds. Auto for business, Manual for pleasure. nuff said.

[Carmagio]

I prefer manual, but it makes driving/coffee very difficult.
Besides, it gives me the impression i'm driving a race car

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I've got an automatic in muh truck. It's a 700R4 (yeah, the one's they hook up to the Big Blocks ) and I love it. It's tough as hell, and has no problem smoking the tires when it shifts.

engine: "vvvvroooOOOOOOoommmmm! WHABBAH! WHABBAH!"
tranny: "That all you got? Gimme some real work, bitch!"

[mark e]

I love automatic...

[Somebody]

Quite astonished at the number of people who prefer automatic transmission. :\

[n_ick2000]

Automatic all the way.

[Omit Name]

manual has a slightly popular stereotype of transmisions failing due to extended driver error in shifting. why take the chance automatic for me.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

To be perfectly honest, I've only driven one car that had a manual tranny. It was my first g/f's car... a beat-up old 1984 Nissan Sentra. I had never driven a manual before, and I'm proud cuz I didn't stall it once. I had fun spinning the front tires at a stop sign on a backroad, too. If it hadn't been raining, it wouldn't have had the power to spin them.

[Somebody]

up you go, mr thread (bump)

[Curi0us_George]

Originally posted by Omit Name
manual has a slightly popular stereotype of transmisions failing due to extended driver error in shifting. why take the chance automatic for me.

Modern manual transmissions use syncros, so it's more difficult to damage the transmission. Still, a lot of drivers still wear out their clutches prematurely by using them to hold the car at lights on inclines and such.

I prefer manual. My car is an automatic, but manual is so much more fun to drive. I'd feel differently if I lived in a major city, but most of my driving is either short trips to the store or long trip on the interstate. Not a lot of driving through cities for long periods of time.

Manual transmissions also get better gas milage. My next car will be a manual unless I'm living in a major city at the time, and then it still might be a manual.

[steady puffin']

manual4life

[Omit Name]

useless rant: my brother in law is the curse of modern society and seems to destroy or cause chaos to anything above the level of complexity of a wheelbarrel. he is also, unfortunatly, quite prone to asking to borrow things. (in most cases, if its small, he keeps it too.) [cough]bastard[/cough] once he breaks it he seems to have a nack for "ghetto rigging" whatever it is into a pathetic state of existance which would make even the least self-aware object to wish its own demise. (it works like crap for the rest of its life.) because im sure he would ask to use my car, if i had one, and because i know that the rest of my family wouldnt let me tell him no is why i would likely pick an automatic before standard. (in hopes that he would be less likely to break it.)

::the end::

[Kalervo Manni]

Manual transmission is good. I never have drive with automatic transmission (most Europeans have manual transmission on their cars).

[Rocker]

i prefer manual coz you get more out of the car(if u know how to drive manual)

its not really easier or harder

i don't think Lancer EVO VII come in auto's anyway

having a learners permit and a Lancer EVO VII sucks penis btw

[BigStarPlaya]

Right now I have an automatic, but I want to trade it in and get an Acura RSX Type S. (six speed) ::drooling::

[thepisu]

I haven't tried automatic transmission yet (it's rarely used here in Italy), but I think I prefer manual, you have more control, you have the engine in your hand..

[Somebody]

Originally posted by Omit Name
useless rant: my brother in law is the curse of modern society and seems to destroy or cause chaos to anything above the level of complexity of a wheelbarrel. he is also, unfortunatly, quite prone to asking to borrow things. (in most cases, if its small, he keeps it too.) [cough]bastard[/cough] once he breaks it he seems to have a nack for "ghetto rigging" whatever it is into a pathetic state of existance which would make even the least self-aware object to wish its own demise. (it works like crap for the rest of its life.) because im sure he would ask to use my car, if i had one, and because i know that the rest of my family wouldnt let me tell him no is why i would likely pick an automatic before standard. (in hopes that he would be less likely to break it.)

::the end::

what if he's one of those retarded types that like to shift with an AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION car?
therefore = fucking up transimission = more $$

[Omit Name]

hes a little off and his mom might have done crack when she was pregnat with him but i dont think hes that stoopid.

i did not read this thread. this reply was brought on purely by Somebody making me post, or else him saying he would send 5 Dancing Bin Laden's to my house to beat me up.

Topic Hijack: Anyone remember Jay Leno's Dancing Ito's?

[NukePeng]

automatic without a doubt. yes i'm lazy and i have a hard time multi-tasking. So if all have to concentrat on is Driving/Radio/Girlfriend, i'm good to go. I tried manual a few time and kept grinding the gears because i have twithinc problems. I start to shight and my arm jerks causing me to grind gears. I once got rolling while still in second (not much of an accomplishment but i'm still proud of myself)

[Curi0us_George]

I took my driver's license test in a manual. I accidentally took off in third gear.

I got my license, though.

[Somebody]

Originally posted by Curi0us_George
I took my driver's license test in a manual. I accidentally took off in third gear.

I got my license, though.

well at least you didn't stall it or something

[jns]

MANUAL!
What else?