Manual or Automatic.

[bgeno]

Re: Manual or Automatic.

Auto...........too much traffic and pot holes here to enjoy a stick

Yeah, if I was in a city, I'd rather have automatic. But I love cruising a five-speed on country roads.

I learned how to drive on a stick.

I did the same thing. My step-dad bought his buddy's 5-speed '97 Ford Ranger just a few days after I turned 16. He drove it home and we went strait to the school parking lot so I could learn how to get out of neutral then to the local park so I could learn to actually drive it.

To help me learn how to get out of neutral on steep hills at red lights/stop signs, he parked the truck on the steepest hill he could find in the park (not THAT steep), got out of the truck, stood about 3 feet behind the tailgate, and said "get up the hill, and don't hit me." Talk about nerve-racking. You'll learn to master the brake, clutch, shift, gas sequence quite quickly that way.

Probably some of the most frustrating times of my life

I can remember going to drive my truck to school for the first time. I backed out of the driveway, shifted into first, and it wouldn't move. It wouldn't go forward and would just stall. I was like "What the hell? It's broken." I turned on the four ways and sat in the road like "oh no." Well, it turns out I never took off the parking brake. DOH!

[bkrich83]

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Living in So. Cal with So. Cal traffic a manual transmission is torture.

[nemesis04]

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When I lived upstate I enjoyed manual but living on LI with the stop and go traffic it has to be automatic now.

[Knight165]

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Buy and Audi and get the best of both worlds.
tiptronic transmissions.
Auto when I want...manual when I want.
I'd go with the S5...

M.K.
Knight165

[Madman55]

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Auto for sure. I've driven 2 vehicles, both auto and I enjoyed both (and when your not paying for gas/maintenance gas mileage doesn't matter. :P)

[nemesis04]

Re: Manual or Automatic.

Buy and Audi and get the best of both worlds.
tiptronic transmissions.
Auto when I want...manual when I want.
I'd go with the S5...

M.K.
Knight165

tiptronic? That is like manual with training wheels!

[SuperBowlNachos]

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In a truck, automatic. I have driven a 5 speed ford ranger since I have been driving and it just gets annoying at times. Even with 5 years of experience sometimes I will shift wrong or be in 3rd when I think I am in first. Plus, no cruise control in manual.

[bkrich83]

Re: Manual or Automatic.

Buy and Audi and get the best of both worlds.
tiptronic transmissions.
Auto when I want...manual when I want.
I'd go with the S5...

M.K.
Knight165

I have the same thing with my Infiniti.

Just test drove a bunch of the '10 model Audi's. They just don't do anything for me.

[19]

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Manual FTW. Wouldn't trade my Jetta for anything...

[RockinDaMike]

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Plus, no cruise control in manual.

You probably haven't driven stick in a newer car, my 2004 has cruise control and its manual.

[koebner]

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Gotta go with the auto plus manual shift option.
Have it in my Mazda;best of both worlds.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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You probably haven't driven stick in a newer car, my 2004 has cruise control and its manual.

Nope. Just in a '96 truck lol

[Jonesy]

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I learnt to drive on a manual but prefer auto's now. Guess i'm just too lazy to be bothered changing gears all the time.

[sb24]

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You probably haven't driven stick in a newer car, my 2004 has cruise control and its manual.

My 97 sedan is the same way.

[pennstlbu]

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Too much traffic and too many hills in Seattle to enjoy a manual. Auotmatic all the way.