Re: [DML] Automatic vs. Stick

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I took a new Donge Magnum HEMI for a test drive yesterday,
it has an AUTO 5-speed.
I can tell you, there is no need for a manual with these new engines and 
transmissions.
This friggin station wagon does 60 in 6 seconds, with almost 400 lbs of 
torque, and 350 horsepower, the auto can be manually controlled.
It was Fred Dellis that said that a Turbo AUTO would beat a stick because it 
could change
gears without letting off the gas to shift and could give power through all 
the cycles.
This is why the new automatics are taking over.
I never thought I would see an auto in a Lamborghini.
Progress my man.
- VB

>From: "Murray Fisher" <murrayfw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: Re: [DML] Automatic vs. Stick
>Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:11:09 -0800
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>Automatics are for old men. (I am 84!!)..   As you can see by my years I
>have had a lot of time and cars.   I really enjoyed the straight sticks 
>over
>this time.....made me feel like a REAL MAN.....All of my cars now are
>automatic.  I got tired in all of those years of spending all my time
>"rowing through those gears".   It is SO NICE now, to sit back and relax 
>and
>just steer between the telephone poles!   I don't know what the actual
>figures are as to numbers of Auto VS 5 speeds, but when I was looking for
>mine, 10 years ago, I found it difficult to find an Auto.  My criteria at
>that time was that it had to be Auto, Gray leather and the original SS.   I
>checked all sources and it was My experience that there were about 1 in 10
>that were automatic.  I don't really believe that is correct though.  I was
>almost on my way to the big city to look at two 5 speeds, when the night
>before I left, an Automatic showed up that had only 3K miles on it....just
>what I was looking for and I bought it and drove it home.   But more power
>to you 5 speed "kids".  Its YOUR turn to have the fun!!
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>Murray
>Vin: 05962
>Lic:  DMC-XII
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