"Driving" an automatic

[SilentDeath]

Whats wrong with manuals for motorway cruising?????????? The one time you never need to change gear... just stick it in 5th... maybe in traffic jams but then you have nothing else to do...

Cruise control is nice though and is much more usefull than an auto box.

[kalniel]

Unless you hit the 'resume cruise' button when you're trying to cancel stupid one-touch indicators on your way into a petrol station.

[Howard]

I love cruise control, great for lazy motorway cruising, not so useful if it's a busy motorway though

[SilentDeath]

one touch indicators :/ how is that diffeerent to the normal self canceling type?


I wish my cruise control went below 25mph :/
but then if its that slow you just let it idle you along in first or second

unless its really slow in which case its your own fault for planning a bad route

[Rave]

I switch between auto and manual every day- but then it's my bus that's an automatic, so I also have to adjust to the extra 2.5' in width and extra 22' in length. Not sure how I'd adjust to an auto car now, the last one I drove was a 1.2 Nissan Micra, and the auto gearbox was a poor match for the tiny, revvy little engine. I still squeezed 49.9mpg out of it according to the trip computer tho.

[teachmech]

My only experience of an auto was when my wife had a 1.2 corsa with an auto box. We bought it as she had to drive into a city for uni for threes years. In that kind of traffic it was a god send.
However I just could not get on with it. At a junction/roundabout I could not deal with the slight hesitation between foot down and start to move, it just seems more instantaneous with a manual.

[Hawklan]

Hi

I've never like auto's until I owned a v8 BMW 5 series auto
Now that was an amazing car you could forget about changing gear and focus on whizzing around (really fast).
When you wanted to take it easy you could just cruise around and relax

However a bad auto box can be a really horrible car to drive. I recently had a Chrysler loaner when my car was being repaired and that was just plain horrible. No feeling of being in control and for some reason is changed year to late even when you wasn't pushing it