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river Forums Junkie Location: Land of Oz Registered: June 2004	Re: Best feeling ever Mon, 23 August 2004 23:04 Hi, Camry_omega wrote on Mon, 23 August 2004 18:55 The ablility to control a car, drive at safe speed and make correct decisions is not a funtion of a transmission. Absolutely spot on. If you drive a manual and you need to think about changing gears, and changing the gears is what keeps you concentrating and alert, then perhaps you need to revise your driving skills. I drive a manual and gear changing comes 2nd nature to me. If I had to think and concentrate to change gears then I'd go to an auto. As far as highway driving goes, you just put it into 5th gear and from all intents and purposes the car may as well be an auto cos it stays in that gear all the time - assuming long flat highway. Autos do have other gears and, in my wifes car, I push it down to the lower gears when required. Sure, it's not as much fun as a manual, but it still works and saves riding the brakes. I used to down change to slow down, but the synchros are now shot and I use the brakes more - and, beleive me, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to replace pads then get your gearbox fixed - especially if its an old box and parts are hard to get. As far as people who drive manuals who put their foot on the brake instead of the clutch when driving an auto, then they should be banned from driving an auto 'cos that's damn dangerous. It's dumb to get people to learn on a manual 'cos the most important thing to learn is road awareness and the rules, not how to change gears. Once they get their license most will go and buy an auto anyway, which defeats the purpose of learning in a manual, 'cos driving a manual doesn't make you a better driver. I've seen posts on this forum for gear-change lights and buzzers. If you need that to tell you when to change gears, then get an automatic. What's next? We learn on cars with non-ABS? Turbo and non-turbo cars? LSD and non-LSD cars? Small sedans to wagons to large 4WDs to vans? IMHO so long as the driver understands the rules and uses a bit of the grey matter to see whats going on around them and applies a bit of courtesy on the road, I don't give a tinkers toss what type of transmission they have. It doesn't really matter. seeyuzz river [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Best feeling ever	mynameisrodney	Mon, 23 August 2004 03:48
	Re: Best feeling ever	fade-e	Mon, 23 August 2004 04:27
	Re: Best feeling ever	finney	Mon, 23 August 2004 04:58
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Mon, 23 August 2004 09:46
	Re: Best feeling ever	fade-e	Mon, 23 August 2004 05:17
	Re: Best feeling ever	finney	Mon, 23 August 2004 05:22
	Re: Best feeling ever	Evan	Mon, 23 August 2004 05:50
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Mon, 23 August 2004 06:08
	Re: Best feeling ever	Beer_is_good	Mon, 23 August 2004 06:20
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Mon, 23 August 2004 06:27
	Re: Best feeling ever	olihaub	Mon, 23 August 2004 06:39
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Mon, 23 August 2004 06:41
	Re: Best feeling ever	olihaub	Mon, 23 August 2004 07:13
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Mon, 23 August 2004 07:28
	Re: Best feeling ever	Evan	Mon, 23 August 2004 06:52
	Re: Best feeling ever	fade-e	Mon, 23 August 2004 06:59
	Re: Best feeling ever	soaringmik	Mon, 23 August 2004 07:10
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Tue, 24 August 2004 02:04
	Re: Best feeling ever	river	Mon, 23 August 2004 07:13
	Re: Best feeling ever	EVOSTi	Mon, 23 August 2004 07:40
	Re: Best feeling ever	mynameisrodney	Mon, 23 August 2004 07:41
	Re: Best feeling ever	Evan	Mon, 23 August 2004 08:06
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Mon, 23 August 2004 08:21
	Re: Best feeling ever	olihaub	Mon, 23 August 2004 08:34
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Mon, 23 August 2004 08:51
	Re: Best feeling ever	Camry_omega	Mon, 23 August 2004 08:55
	Re: Best feeling ever	Classique71	Mon, 23 August 2004 09:35
	Re: Best feeling ever	river	Mon, 23 August 2004 23:04
	Re: Best feeling ever	crayz legz	Mon, 23 August 2004 08:53
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Mon, 23 August 2004 10:28
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Mon, 23 August 2004 11:47
	Re: Best feeling ever	steve-O	Mon, 23 August 2004 12:50
	Re: Best feeling ever	NILE8U	Mon, 23 August 2004 13:27
	Re: Best feeling ever	mynameisrodney	Mon, 23 August 2004 21:18
	Re: Best feeling ever	Evan	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:11
	Re: Best feeling ever	soaringmik	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:19
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:42
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:25
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:40
	Re: Best feeling ever	Evan	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:42
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:49
	Re: Best feeling ever	soaringmik	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:54
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:55
	Re: Best feeling ever	Evan	Tue, 24 August 2004 01:56
	Re: Best feeling ever	soaringmik	Tue, 24 August 2004 02:04
	Re: Best feeling ever	soaringmik	Tue, 24 August 2004 02:12
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Tue, 24 August 2004 02:21
	Re: Best feeling ever	soaringmik	Tue, 24 August 2004 02:28
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Tue, 24 August 2004 02:32
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Tue, 24 August 2004 02:52
	Re: Best feeling ever	Evan	Tue, 24 August 2004 03:32
	Re: Best feeling ever	lumpy	Tue, 24 August 2004 03:56
	Re: Best feeling ever	Camry_omega	Tue, 24 August 2004 08:12
	Re: Best feeling ever	Beer_is_good	Tue, 24 August 2004 08:42
	Re: Best feeling ever	Shraka	Tue, 24 August 2004 11:39
	Re: Best feeling ever	MR 1JZ	Wed, 25 August 2004 01:06

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