Automatic transmissions.

They're more expensive and less powerful, but at least they break easy and are worse on fuel.

Thank you for your time. :deadxmas:

 

They're actually quite reliable when properly maintained.

 

I have a mazda 626

talk about fucked up transmission stuff

 

i got 2006 mazda 6,
the sun roof is stuck open.

 

It's a constant thorn in my side that my Tercel is a 4 speed automatic and my boyfriend's Tercel is a 5 speed manual. I want his car.

 

hahahahaIm sorry but this made me crack up..

 

I ride a bike, so fuck you.

 

true, depending on manufacturer and model. a lot of Chrysler trans have been junk regardless

 

If you know how to drive a manual, they are 1000 times better then an automatic...

By the same token, if you don't know how... they are the most expensive things in the world...

Years back, my girlfriend (ex a long time ago), took our new (to us, it was used) car for a three hour drive. When we bought it, it had just had a new clutch put in it. Silly me, I assumed she was telling the truth when she said she could drive a stick...

She called me from her destination (3 hours away) to tell me that there was something wrong with the car and it wouldn't go.... then called me back later after getting it towed to a garage to tell me the clutch was burnt out...

 

/thread

 

I much prefer an automatic...its way easier to use my phone and drink my coffee with an automatic while Im towing a truck down the highway at 100kph...doing that with a manual trans is just plain dangerous.

 

lol

 

I owned an f250 xlt diesel once though with a five speed manual and that one towed really nice once you set the cruise

had to sell it because it was unreliable to start in the cold and it was only 2 wheel drive /crap

 

I can remember my stepfather driving his little honda hatchback towing a box trailer that the car could fit into, full of fruit, 120km/hr up from toronto, half pissed out of his tree while smoking....

Cell phones didn't exist then, or he likely would have been doing that too... lol

 

...anyone else here ever steer with their knees while eating lunch?

 

Rolled joints while doing that, does that count?

 

twice this week. don't let grim find out though, he is on patrol for the safety of North American roadways

 

Did That For Thousands Of Hours Here On The Farm Driving Tractors...

Was Really Easy, Because My Current Tractor Has Full Hydraulic Steering.

Which Means There Is No Mechanical Connection Between The Wheels

And The Steering Wheel, Hence There Is Zero Kickback Even On

The Roughest Ground, So You Could Easily Steer It With Your "Dick"...

Only Do It Occasionally On Public Roads Now, Since It Tends To

Traumatise Passengers To The Extreme.....



Cheers Glen.

 

be careful...you might catch a curb

 

my van has a powerglide