Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK!
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Kale)
1. Corvettes are supposed to have manual transmissions (despite the seemingly valid rationalizations from the automatic transmissioned among us).
Manual people like to think that, but it isn't true.
Corvette first came into life with a 2 speed auto.
And what the hell is chevy doing putting a v8 in there? :confused:
Manual people like to think that, but it isn't true.
Corvette first came into life with a 2 speed auto.
And what the hell is chevy doing putting a v8 in there? :confused:
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Scoob)
I bet if you took a new miata, and a c5, back to 1953, painted them both white with a red interior... and asked them which one was a Corvette, they would all pick the miata. :lol:
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Scoob)
1. Corvettes are supposed to have manual transmissions (despite the seemingly valid rationalizations from the automatic transmissioned among us).
2. Driving in traffic with a manual transmission is not difficult or tiring (especially for an 18 year old). And complaining about said driving is a cop out for those unwilling to admit publically that they long for the non-driving experience that is the automatic transmission.
3. If you disagree with #2 then you need to be fitted with a nice Ford Taurus with an automatic transmission (and a season pass to the bingo hall).
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2. Driving in traffic with a manual transmission is not difficult or tiring (especially for an 18 year old). And complaining about said driving is a cop out for those unwilling to admit publically that they long for the non-driving experience that is the automatic transmission.
3. If you disagree with #2 then you need to be fitted with a nice Ford Taurus with an automatic transmission (and a season pass to the bingo hall).
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Marty McFly)
Some of us feel exactly the opposite. I love my car, but there's not a day that goes by that I don't wish it was an M6. I guess that's a feature that my first *new* vette will have to be ordered with. Go do some AutoX-ing...then you'll be glad you have an M6! :yesnod:
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (BiZ)
You'll get used to it.
And why does your right knee bother you?
And why does your right knee bother you?
My right knee is messed up from football already, it hurt with the auto as well. But the constant letting off/on, getting to the proper amount of gas at friction point, really takes a toll on it.
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (NE14SIN)
What part of VA do you live in? I'm moving to the DC area, and I am interested in knowing how bad the traffic is there. I wonder if it could be worse than here in Honolulu.
Its just awful, even out here in the suburbs its bad. Stop and go during 3-7 oclock. Stop lights on highways are typically the culprits. Not to mention brain dead drivers...Illegal immagrants driving with out a license
Its bad, you can move here because you own a vette ;)
But Im tired of everyone and their grandma moving here.
2nd Fastest Growing county in the country :eek:
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (NE14SIN)
What part of VA do you live in? I'm moving to the DC area, and I am interested in knowing how bad the traffic is there. I wonder if it could be worse than here in Honolulu.
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (VetteBabe1)
What part of VA do you live in? I'm moving to the DC area, and I am interested in knowing how bad the traffic is there. I wonder if it could be worse than here in Honolulu.
I live in Richmond, where the traffic is nothing. I have several friends who live in DC, and it's THE WORST!!! I have a friend who works 20 miles from her house, and it takes her 1.5hrs to get there in the morning. God forbid you are trying to leave the city going South on a Friday afternoon. A lot of people live in Fredericksburg and commute. Richmond is really nice though. The traffic is very managable. My fiance lives in VA Beach, and it can get hellish, but nothing like DC. I know someone else who lives up there will vouch from personal experience. :lol:
I live in Richmond, where the traffic is nothing. I have several friends who live in DC, and it's THE WORST!!! I have a friend who works 20 miles from her house, and it takes her 1.5hrs to get there in the morning. God forbid you are trying to leave the city going South on a Friday afternoon. A lot of people live in Fredericksburg and commute. Richmond is really nice though. The traffic is very managable. My fiance lives in VA Beach, and it can get hellish, but nothing like DC. I know someone else who lives up there will vouch from personal experience. :lol:
If I start off in Sterling, and get on 7 west to leesburg, at about 5-6pm, it will take me about 45min-1 hour to get home, and its only about 5-10 miles apart.
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK!
I have an auto trans C-4 roadster and I've entered it in both the 2000 & 2001 OLOA. I have no regrets with an auto trans, it adds so much flexibilty to the car. Granted it's a different style of driving while you're on a road racing track but it is capable none the less. My only wish is that GM would have built a Z06 with an auto trans. To me, that would have been the ultimate Corvette.
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Marty McFly)
Man am I getting tired of driving a manual.
This has to be a joke!
Maybe you should sell that vette and buy a kia sephia!
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Marty McFly)
What?! That's half the fun!
My left leg muscles got "trained" in heavy rush hour Los Angles traffic.
Bum knee is a valid complaint for needing an auto tho.
Solution: buy an auto Vette for commuting. :lol: No, really. Serious :D
:cheers:
My left leg muscles got "trained" in heavy rush hour Los Angles traffic.
Bum knee is a valid complaint for needing an auto tho.
Solution: buy an auto Vette for commuting. :lol: No, really. Serious :D
:cheers:
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Marty McFly)
yer saying this
and here i am about to put my auto vette up for grabs
so i can get a 6speed vette.
now i'm confused :( do i get 6speed or not? majority of the cars i've driven in my life so far have been auto. only one stick and that was for about a week so i never got good at it.
and here i am about to put my auto vette up for grabs
so i can get a 6speed vette.
now i'm confused :( do i get 6speed or not? majority of the cars i've driven in my life so far have been auto. only one stick and that was for about a week so i never got good at it.
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Rex Ruby)
Drove manual transmission cars as daily drivers for years. Now I buy my daily drivers with an auto tarnsmission and my back & left knee thank me for it.
A manual transmission is fun to drive but I have to go with you in that chugging congested commuter traffic changing gears it is brutal on the body.
There is nothing wrong with having an automatic Corvette.
A manual transmission is fun to drive but I have to go with you in that chugging congested commuter traffic changing gears it is brutal on the body.
There is nothing wrong with having an automatic Corvette.
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Re: Driving a manual gets OLD QUICK! (Marty McFly)
For the mostly twisty, non-congested roads around here my auto really takes some of the fun out of the car. But I do use it for my longer trips and I really appreciate it in crummy big city traffic. Also, there is something fun about that 4th to 2nd kickdown for passing the slowpokes doing 70 :) Not to mention my favorite feature of stoplight power-braking. Pretending to be an NHRA burnout specialist doesn't get any easier.