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View Poll Results: Manual or automatic?
Yes, I like using my left leg on the clutch pedal - let me stir the gears! 157 73.71%
I'd rather just plant my foot and let my car get on with it - automatic please! 56 26.29%
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Old 12-02-2004, 03:37   #61 (permalink)
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well an auto for me think it will be fun enough with twin turbo v8
Fast cars, Turbos and auto's all go togther...they have the best times..
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Fast cars, Turbos and auto's all go togther...they have the best times..
Not necessarily when corners are involved. Straights are boring, they only connect the fun bits. My definition of a fun car is one that eats corners and to do that you have to be absolutely sure what gear you are in.

I want to know that I am in 2nd gear after screaming in to a hairpin. If a car is getting a little floaty around a curve at the top of 3rd or 4th I'd like it to change gear when I consider it safe to do so. I don't want to have to rely on a yaw sensor, traction control, engine management, etc to determine my changes.
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Drag Racing 4.5 sec covers 400 meters
thats racing...
140 mph in a 10.50 car in 400 meters thats hauling...
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Drag Racing 4.5 sec covers 400 meters
thats racing...
140 mph in a 10.50 car in 400 meters thats hauling...
Well we will have to agree to disagree when it comes to the definition of racing. For drag racing autos are the way to go, but the guy who clocked 1:40 (Porsche 911 GT3) around Phillip Island wasn't doing it in an auto.
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Well we will have to agree to disagree when it comes to the definition of racing. For drag racing autos are the way to go, but the guy who clocked 1:40 (Porsche 911 GT3) around Phillip Island wasn't doing it in an auto.
do it have a clutch ?
most of them cars these days just have a stick and pedal, semi auto..
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Daily driver repmobile has got to be an auto, but the XR8 has definately got the goods with a stick shift. 6 speed would be even better!
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SLR mercedes with a tip steering wheel shift and sex stained seats.
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* smciner1 wonders why he took so long to find this thread..........
you might have been out looking for Auto drivers..(tm) ..lol..
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Manual for me, as I would rather be a driver not just a car operator.
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