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2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Manual automatic is an oxymoron. It is one or the other.
Now I have to go eat my "jumbo shrimp", or things will get "pretty ugly" around here.
HINT:
K = Kupplung = Clutch. B = Bremsem = Brakes.
3 PEDALS IN A DIFFERENT ORDER
There have been other stories like this in the past. This is a new one.
Some good PR about the advantages of manuals.....
Everything goes in cycles. A smart manual transmission company should start an ad campaign and tell the kids that they can be cooler than their parents by rowing their own gears.
Kids got tired of seeing old guys like me on snowboards so they moved on to cooler twin tips. Shoot, go more retro and put in crank windows. I bet wing vent windows would be a big hit too. Just leave the mp3 stuff.
I still have never seen real world evidence of any automatic beating a manual. Look at EPA website - manual wins every time for real world numbers (as long as there is a significant sample).
CR had a good article about it a little while ago, manuals showed a distinct advantage even when EPA numbers were lower.
At best the auto tied the manual in the real world loop.
You know what? Pushing buttons is boring (to me).
The traffic police are shooting me with radar; the parking police are holding their stopwatching, counting down to the second I'm overdue parked; the nanny gadgets need to be constantly turned off; the roads are getting more and more crowded......do automakers want to rip from my grasp that very last source of amusement I have, in enjoying my 6-speed, 3 pedal, rev where you want, shift when you want, transmission?
Must shifts be faultless--am I no longer allowed to screw up, to learn the best and smoothest way to shift?
Do I really have to pay for track time to enjoy myself anymore?
OKAY -- compromise---in a Ferrari, I could stand paddle shifters.... :P
We'll be like Jedis. :shades:
Talk like this, we must.
With 200 HP those .2 seconds matter. Now, with a 400+ HP Ferrari, that .2 seconds faster might not be so important.
1960's air cooled VW Beetle perhaps?
I had one of those and it wasn't very fast.
Talk like this, we must.
What strikes me as REALLY ironic about that remark is that you have to be old enough to understand that remark (having seen the movie in the theater! :-P) to know how to drive a stick! :-) :shades:
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
ps - the VW cabrio M6 TDI looks awesome, what a great value...
(especially after years with a 2006 newbeetle TDI DSG... )
pps - a shoutout to ateixyoda & obi-wan-andres3
Of course that means manuals = Jabba the Hut.
I find your lack of shifting......disturbing.
With launch control it might be even more and for sure more consistent victories if your drag racing a lot.
I Just extrapolate that if it's .2 faster 0-60, it probably is a little faster 20-80 , 40-60, 40-70, 0-100, and any other measurement of speed. It just shifts so fast there is no way to beat it.
Very Good Good
0 to 30 mph, sec.
3.2 3.6
0 to 60 mph, sec.
9.4 9.5
45 to 65 mph, sec.
5.2 6.0
On top of being faster the stick got 27/49 city highway to the 25/ 45 for the automatic. This is with DSG - regular automatics are worse.
They have done this comparison for many cars and the stick wins in acceleration and mpg every time. VW is the only DSG they tested with both.
Afterall, when a car is "cheapened" out, it is rare that it is only visual things that are cheapened.
Also, in DSG manual mode you can always immediately select the next lower gear without any delay, although a double down shift down would take .2 seconds longer. If you just floor it in auto mode I think it's capable of shifting down more than 1 gear all at once. I'll have to run more tests.
A TDI is not meant to be performance oriented, so DSG may not pair well with it. DSG is for a performance motor, like the 2.0T.
Unnatural maybe...but oh so pleasurable. :P
I would not even feel awkward about it now, since I have a stick in the driveway again!
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Just be careful. Worshiping the Almighty Stick has an awful lot of interesting connotations, many of which are not family friendly, and some of which are just plain hilarious. :shades:
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
I really think it is the OTHER way around. Most of the worship, more importantly the monies have gone into "automatic"(transmissions) improvements, that so far have really not overcome the third pedals performance parameters, i.e. parasitic forces, mpg , range of mpg, durability, cost, to name a few, other than the automatics are ...automatic. At that, there has been, is and probably will remain a considerable premium, albeit for 47 years that I have been driving.
I say this from the perspective of owning automatics; 3,4,6,7,8 speeds, (3- in a 1950's car) 4,5,6 speeds manuals and a six speed DSG.
Further, I do really like the 8 speed A/T, 6 speed manual Tremec and 6 speed DSG. In the case of the 8 speed A/T, it is standard with no other transmission offering. In that sense, the extra cost (app 1,200) is built into the cost structure making it opaque. The 4,5,6, speed manuals almost all have had the A/T(@ extra cost option) The DSG was an 1,100 extra cost option over a 6 speed M/T standard.
The other drivers are a problem with ANY two wheeler.
And if you're 60+ on a two wheeler, you can double the bad odds by a factor of 2.
Older bikers do seem to be claimed around here as much as the 19 year olds on literbikes.
On the bike note, I got an email last night from a local dealer claiming the Honda 500s will be in next month.
Correct - half of motor cycle deaths are 1st year riders. Get past the first year and odds drop by half.
Did I miss what you are driving? Anyway, congratulations on a new ride!
Just a lease though - the 13s are being given away in advance of the upcoming facelift model, and I got a heck of a deal. I'd never have financed something so pricey. Never had a new car before, so, like the kids say, you only live once.
It really is nice to have a new car, although I've never leased before.
Usually I have kind of sneered at new cars, but I have to say the technology is fun, and having something under warranty is a little peace of mind. I also got a fair price for the old car, and I sold it before I might have become too attached. As long as my income is stable, I might get into leasing if prices are subsidized like this (I am certain I am paying less than real world depreciation). It'll just eliminate any big vacation for a year or two :shades:
Road trip! :P
Make sure not to accelerate to autobahn speeds, or your mileage will suffer. :shades: