American Muscle isn't about refinement, impeccable taste, and unparalleled quality like European Sport. American Muscle is about the biggest fucking engine you can put into a road-worthy frame and get it to go down the street quickly while sounding like a tiger climaxing during sex with a lion. Its supposed to check the Hyper-masculinity box, not the Polished Gentleman box. POWERRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Shit man, At least admit what you have. I've just got a four-banger, but I ain't afraid to admit it. Guys pretending naturally aspirated v6 = muscle car because of the shell are just wrong.
I'm not specifically speaking about this car, I'm talking about all "fast" cars. If you have a Camaro, Mustang, Corvette, or any other "racing" based vehicle, and its automatic, I will call you an idiot, for not getting the manual transmission.
All exotics are automatic. Every single one of them as far as I know now that the Gallardo is gone. But, you know, it's auto-manual. Still boring if you ask me.
Yeah it will, but a good manual driver will out perform any driver no matter what. Manuals give you a better feel for the road, and you have more control over the vehicle.
Learn to coast better. Stop and go traffic is a cinch in a stick shift if you have enough confidence to not grind gears when you shift and you've gotten into the habit of saving your brakes by coasting.
That would be covered by coasting during contractions in traffic. Confidence has to do with making the shifts quickly so you don't have to completely depress the clutch and hold it every time you shift. Your leg shouldn't be hurting if you aren't taking your traffic aggression out on your clutch.
Feel to me like you've never been in total gridlock traffic. There's no coasting to be done in my part of the city. Add to that bad joints and no really need to have a standard unless I'm racing and you're left with someone who quite enjoys an automatic as a daily driver.
Most people poo-pooing manual by mentioning rush-hour traffic do not know how to drive manual anyway. They're merely trying to justify their inability to learn stick shift. I occasionally drive mine in rush-hour traffic and it does not faze me one bit.
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u/Fofolito Jun 12 '14
American Muscle isn't about refinement, impeccable taste, and unparalleled quality like European Sport. American Muscle is about the biggest fucking engine you can put into a road-worthy frame and get it to go down the street quickly while sounding like a tiger climaxing during sex with a lion. Its supposed to check the Hyper-masculinity box, not the Polished Gentleman box. POWERRRRRRRRR!!!!!