Automatic Vs Manual
Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Stop staring at my azz!!!! IL.
Originally Posted by bdc6
but a MN6 is only faster with a pro driver...any normal driver with an A4 can be faster than a normal driver with a MN6... can I get a show of hands who agrees with me.... 
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2003
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From: Tampa FL
Originally Posted by Sully C5
It's funny, whenever I run at Road Atlanta, you never hear comments like this from the guys at the track. When we are in pit row talking about how we ran that day, no one cares cares about your tranny.
My black/black/3.15/auto is amazingly fast from all speeds. I beat an SRT-10 Viper 3 times in a row from about 50-60mph. It's also not true that you don't have to think while driving the C6 auto. With trac control all the way off, mashing the gas at anything under 50mph has a tendency to break the tires loose. Any driver of a bone stock C6 no matter what tranny will tell you that you always have to be aware in that thing. Even bone stock, it's a real beast. 
Team Owner
Joined: Dec 2002
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From: San Francisco CA
This is exactly what I was saying a long time ago manuals on these vettes have issues
Originally Posted by SilverCoupe
Several reasons why I prefer an automatic to a manual tranny, some of which are not the tranny itself but related issues because of the way things are on the C6.
1. CAGS - Don't have to put a 29-cent device on a $52K car just so I can drive the car the way I want to.
2. Reverse - Having to leave the car in Reverse doesn't bother me so much, but I do have to leave the car with someone else 2 or 3 times a year.
3. Memory - Don't like having to push the memory button every time I get in the car.
4. Hills - Don't like having to worry about other drivers pulling up so close to my back bumper at traffic lights on a hill.
5. Defensive driving - Can better avoid the idiots using cell phones and doing 2 or 3 other things at the same time they're laughingly doing something that resembles driving.
6. Ego - Don't have to drive a manual to satisfy my ego that I'm still a teenager or that my lack of stated valid reasons for driving what I choose is the final word.
1. CAGS - Don't have to put a 29-cent device on a $52K car just so I can drive the car the way I want to.
2. Reverse - Having to leave the car in Reverse doesn't bother me so much, but I do have to leave the car with someone else 2 or 3 times a year.
3. Memory - Don't like having to push the memory button every time I get in the car.
4. Hills - Don't like having to worry about other drivers pulling up so close to my back bumper at traffic lights on a hill.
5. Defensive driving - Can better avoid the idiots using cell phones and doing 2 or 3 other things at the same time they're laughingly doing something that resembles driving.
6. Ego - Don't have to drive a manual to satisfy my ego that I'm still a teenager or that my lack of stated valid reasons for driving what I choose is the final word.
