The cars and bikes thread!

[Seriously]

I've held these beliefs long before I joined WUS or Twitter. Maybe I was being hyperbolic, but I generally do not enjoy driving cars with automatic transmissions very much. My S4 is DSG and while it's a good car and reasonably fun, every time I drive it I think about how much better it would be with a manual.

Well, drive it in manual shift !!


There's no difference, it'll do the clutch shift a lot better and faster than you (anyone) could ever do , it's a fully cog connected 'box under it all

[geoffbot]

Are we saying an Auto for the boring 1 hour commute and manual for a Weekend blast in a sports car? I agree if so.

[tribe125]

Are we saying an Auto for the boring 1 hour commute and manual for a Weekend blast in a sports car? I agree if so.

Autos are great for congestion too. Inching around the M25, crawling past Birmingham, etc.

And the other week, when I went up to Bond Street for my JLC, I drove up. M20-A20-Lewisham-New Cross-Peckham-Camberwell-Kennington-Pimlico-Vauxhall Bridge-Hyde Park Corner-Piccadilly. I wouldn’t fancy it in a manual. I wouldn’t have reached third gear for a lot of that. Auto plus speed limiter is so much easier when you’re navigating through a swarm of cyclists with traffic lights, pedestrian crossings and traffic cameras every few hundred yards.

[mlcor]

Driving a standard Elise (190hp), I saw no reason for more horsepower. In fact, I remember distinctly that when the Elise S came out (confusingly, the entry model at the time, below the Elise, which had 134 horsepower), Evo magazine gave it either the same rating or half a star more than the standard Elise (5 stars, can't remember if the regular Elise was 5 or 4.5 and usually the higher power ones got only 4 stars). Big numbers are just numbers; they look good on a spec sheet but don't really mean anything in the real world.

Well, I respectfully disagree. The main difference to me was more torque and horsepower at lower rpms, so you didn’t have to always keep the revs above 5500. The supercharger’s ECU mods included one that lowered the kick-in of the second cam to 3000 rpm. This made a huge difference, whether you were on the street or the track. On the former, you could still count on getting acceleration even if you were on a lower gear. On the latter, it meant fewer downshifts. In fact on the one road course I tracked the car on, I pretty much was always in either second or third.


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[Raza]

Are we saying an Auto for the boring 1 hour commute and manual for a Weekend blast in a sports car? I agree if so.

Nope. Give me a manual in bumper to bumper traffic.

[Raza]

Well, I respectfully disagree. The main difference to me was more torque and horsepower at lower rpms, so you didn’t have to always keep the revs above 5500. The supercharger’s ECU mods included one that lowered the kick-in of the second cam to 3000 rpm. This made a huge difference, whether you were on the street or the track. On the former, you could still count on getting acceleration even if you were on a lower gear. On the latter, it meant fewer downshifts. In fact on the one road course I tracked the car on, I pretty much was always in either second or third.


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Ah, see, I like having to keep it on boil to get the most out of it. If it's too easy, it just isn't any fun!

And what a gorgeous car it was:


And probably the most beautiful car interior of all time:

[mlcor]

I had had some custom work done on mine:





I still miss it sometimes, but then I think about how impractical it was, and how hard it rode in daily driving...


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[Seriously]

https://www.pulse1.co.uk/news/video/...-in-stevenage/

[litlmn]

So....the Corvette is dead. The C7, after only 5 years (C6 was 8 years, C5 was 7, C4 was 12) is being replaced by a mid-engine, automatic-only car they're going try to call the Corvette. Unbelievable. Let me guess, the next F150 is going to be a minivan? The next 911 will be a sedan?

It's a beautiful car IMO. Nice specs and price apparently.

[Raza]

It's a beautiful car IMO. Nice specs and price apparently.

It’s not a Corvette and the interior is horribly designed, but it looks great, has monstrous performance, and is super cheap for what you get. It’ll be a runaway hit. GM just changed the game.