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Old Feb 17, 2017, 9:30 am
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WorldLux
 
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Originally Posted by DenverBrian
(Not sure what this obsession with some guys is with manual transmissions.)
Originally Posted by DenverBrian
None of the guys who wax poetic about a manual transmission car would ever accept, say, a manual-defrost refrigerator in 2017.
It's much more fun IMO and it's somewhat more predictable. I can see where I'm going and shift in anticipation, whereas an automatic gearbox doesn't, hence the automatic gearbox is sometimes in the "wrong" gear (e.g. when slowing down for a roundabout, some are a gear too high to just accelerate and merge into the roundabout). Shifting pedals can somewhat work around that problem.
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