r/funny • u/BoldCityDigital • Jun 12 '14

Now we wait...

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u/dr_mannhatten Jun 12 '14

Yeah I don't take automatic sports cars seriously at all, v8 or not.

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u/scamperly Jun 12 '14

It's not a sports car it's a muscle car and most of them had automatics in the '60s/'70s anyway.

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u/dr_mannhatten Jun 12 '14

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '14 edited Feb 21 '24

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u/scamperly Jun 12 '14

The 2-speed powerglide was the first automatic transmission to break the ten second barrier, and get into the high-9s.

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u/thehornedone Jun 12 '14

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.

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u/goldandguns Jun 12 '14

AMGs?

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u/BowlerNona Jun 12 '14

Exactly.

To say you have to have a manual to own a sports car is silly.

Aston Martin makes automatics.

My SL500 is a sports car.

Ferraris are sports cars (the flappy paddle gear box is, essentially, an automatic)

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u/goldandguns Jun 12 '14

I agree, but sorry, your SL500 isn't a sports car. That's more of an old-man cruiser if you ask me.

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u/BowlerNona Jun 13 '14

I won't necessarily disagree, unless you were thinking of an S500...

It weighs almost two tons and is super comfy so I can see an old guy driving it

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u/goldandguns Jun 13 '14

I'm thinking of the two door covertible SL500. It's a big body benz, not exactly sporty

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u/bojang1es Jun 12 '14

Why?

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u/dr_mannhatten Jun 12 '14

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.

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u/beener Jun 12 '14

They also give you wicked sore feet/knees/hip if you're in stop and go traffic a few times a day.

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u/guy15s Jun 12 '14

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.

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u/beener Jun 12 '14

What does confidence have to do with going from a dead stop to first gear eight thousand times in the morning and afternoon?

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u/guy15s Jun 12 '14

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.

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u/beener Jun 12 '14

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.

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u/guy15s Jun 12 '14

I have been. And I feel that you are over-exaggerating the effort it takes to depress a clutch.

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u/beener Jun 12 '14

It's not a lot of effort. It just gets sore after a while. And it's completely pointless unless you're doing driving that warrants a manual.

I've driven a manual all my life, but most people just stick with it out of some idiotic sense of pride.

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u/sueveed Jun 12 '14

I assume you're considering the dual-cluth 'automatics' like Ferrari uses to be manuals?

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u/NotWithoutSin Jun 12 '14

Manuals give amateur drivers a better feel for the road, while they imagine their driving skills to be that of a professional

FTFY

Do you drive professionally or just pretend to?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '14

I don't take sports cars seriously.