Stormtrooper5.0
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HAHA LOL I feel ya on that oneI just wish I could rent a car from you folks... I don't know how to drive any of them. :shrug:
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HAHA LOL I feel ya on that oneI just wish I could rent a car from you folks... I don't know how to drive any of them. :shrug:
A tenth? Hell, I don't even care about whole seconds.People who buy manuals generally don't care about the last tenth of a second when it comes to acceleration times
I find that wind makes driving more stressful. :shrug:Nothing more enjoyable than throwing the stick around on a windy country road.
The problem with the paddle shifter is that it has that same delay with you press it to downshift.The other is downshifting to pass. With a manual once it's shifted to the lower gear, the car quickly accelerates. My experience with automatics is that there's often a delay between pushing the gas pedal and the car responding. This can be one second or more. But maybe paddle shifters avoids this delay. Haven't tried it.
This is true. I rented a Hemi Charger for a trip from Norcal to Socal back in 2015. I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would as I was used to driving MT's.People who buy manuals generally don't care about the last tenth of a second when it comes to acceleration times, they want more involvement in the car. Nothing more enjoyable than throwing the stick around on a windy country road. If I was only interested in acceleration times I'd get a battery powered autonomous car.
If you factor in the time it takes to down shift the manual, not convinced you will be any worse off in an auto.The other is downshifting to pass. With a manual once it's shifted to the lower gear, the car quickly accelerates. My experience with automatics is that there's often a delay between pushing the gas pedal and the car responding. This can be one second or more. But maybe paddle shifters avoids this delay. Haven't tried it.
The only other people to drive my car besides myself were two good friends of mine that drive MT and neither one of them rev matched. Made me cringe every time they “downshifted”. One of my friends out of the two I told to pull back in his driveway (we took like a 10 minute joyride) and I pulled back out and gave him a crash course.Yeah, rev matching is extremely slow (comparatively) and just dropping it into a lower gear is jarring at best and dangerous at worst. Modern autos, even slushboxes, are fast.