I love these killer arguments!

-You think my car is slow? We’ll, I could slap on a turbo and bore the engine to 4 liter with a 9k rev limiter and I’ll show you how slow my car is!

If that’s what it takes to prove to me your AT is as fast as my bone stock MT, go ahead! Lol !!!

Oh and juggling cigarette, coffee, phone and clients while driving is an accident waiting to happen, regardless of type of transmission you have…

 

Face it fellas... Driving a MT is alot easier than some of you make it out to be. It isn't as if you discovered the Ark or something.

Now driving a MT well is a whole different ballgame. And from alot of the Z videos out there, it's something that most of you haven't grasped.

 

I gotta be honest - I wouldn't want to be on the road near you while you do all that at once. Seeing sports car drivers on cell phones while eating does nothing to enhance our image among the Buick-driving public (not to mention our accident rate; and please don't tell us you're a great driver who never had an accident - you shouldn't be doing all that while driving your Z)

 

6M for me!

 

I'm a Sailor!

 

For those who think you have to have a MT to be a real driver and if you have an AT your just a whoos, you might want to take a closer look at Formula 1 cars, you know, those 900 hp 1500# speed demons that regularly exceed 200 mph. To "shift" gears in them, all you do is push a button. The only time you touch the clutch is if you come to a stop. Maybe not an AT, but close enough to fake it. And, IRL cars aren't much different...there you move a stick back and forth instead of pushing a button. I guess they are not hairy chested dare devils. And , considering what Danica looks like, that is a good thing.https://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

+1

When I was looking into buying I seen that the hp/tq were about par between the two, unlike some other cars where the difference is night and day. As for why I got a auto, I wanted the wife to be able to drive it, I tried teaching her mt with the celica and she come close to trashing it as well as the clutch!

 

Another reason I got an AT is because I knew that just being able to learn to drive the Z would be a learning experience in itself and since I bought it right after getting back from Iraq the last thing I needed was another thing to get used to. I swear I was the worst driver ever when I first got back. Apparantly we're not allowed to drive in the middle of the road and shoot at people who get in our way here. Although if I could I'd mount a mk on my Z to let ppl know I mean business.

Will my next Z or whatever sports car I get be a MT probably although I'd rather get a DSG or SMG.

And as for doing all the talking,eating,drinking and driving, well doing one of those by itself is fine in good weather. Doing all of those in perfect weather is dangerous depending on the situation. If its a 4 lane highway with no one on it seriously its not that dangerous. Granted why anyone would dare eat in the Z I have no clue lol

 

autos are good for daily drivers / full out drag cars, manuals are for the enthusiasts and people who like having full control

plus, why not do burnouts for days??? ha ha gotta love the MT

 

I would get an auto if i was going to mod it so heavily that auto would benifit. But imho it felt like i am one with the car when i drive stick

 

hey baron. You think Danica would want to drive a stick or auto Z???? llol

 

just a funny thought...i find it funny that the manual guys are more or less stating that being a real man means you drive jerking a **** back and forth

lol...discuss.

in a nut shell if you bought a 5AT then performance was not priority #1. on the same note the elistist attitude of **** jerking is astounding...LOL.

 

hmmmm, but your the one thinking about it like that....hmmmm
disscusSION closed.

 

i made an observation. it is you who should give in and accept your dirty ways...lol. i kid. i kid.

i just find it funny how people get very defensive about this subject

 

Your the one that brought it brotha. I just let you know it was kind of homo to think of shifting as "jerking a **** around"....

 

"just screw a plug into the bung hole"

Now thats kinda "Homo"...... LOL.... J/K

 

haha thats just from a thread about the non fouler...i thought it was pretty funny bc he didnt think of it when he said it. But all this jerking the **** around talk...idk

 

so basically your saying modding auto will be faster than a stock MT!!?!??!?!?!?!?!...OK >>...........mod for mod MT owns!

 

It's not that hard to learn how to drive manual. Even my grandmother, she 80 years old, drives a manual transmision vehicle, and she does very well, she say's that people in these days are getting lazy, that why they buy most of the time automatic tranmision vehicles..

 

LOL my grandfather used to say that all the time. I think its true,.