Nope.What about FUN? Is the A10 FUN? Is any torque-converter automatic fun? I just can't get over the slushy feel.
If you put the auto trans in āSā mode it wouldnāt go back to overiding your paddles.Nope.
A couple of years ago I rented a Mustang, so it was an automatic.
I didn't think the A10 had a slushy feel, but it made the car unresponsive because it was in such a high gear.
I drove it to the mountains of Virginia, and saw that the A10 was utterly clueless about how to drive a mountain road. It would use a ridiculous high gear, even going uphill, and kept the engine in a constant state of bogging down. That EcoBoost engine should have no shortage of torque at 4000rpm... And the transmission kept it below 3000rpm all the time.
When I came to a curve, the high gear was even more of a liability, and I kept having to override it with the paddles. After several seconds without an input, it would go back to its programming, which meant it shifted up 2 or 3 gears.
**** that
Driving the automatic proved to me that if I bought my own Mustang, I wanted a manual transmission.
Now that I own a 2020 6-speed Mustang, I'm happy about that decision.
Or I could get the transmission I wanted in the first place, and never worry about a computer second-guessing me.If you put the auto trans in āSā mode it wouldnāt go back to overiding your paddles...
My first tractor was a 4 speed manual, but now I have a hydrostatic transmission or whatever you call it. not as fast, but a lot easier to work with. Just gotta remember to get my foot on the right go pedal.Banging gears on the parents couch when I was 5, watching races on TV. In the garage with my uncles while they worked on their 66 and 67 Mustang stick shift cars. Was shifting motorcycles @ 8 yrs old up to the point where I got my first car, a 68 Camaro with a 4 speed. The tractors at my aunt and uncles were sticks I drove when we bailed hay. All my cars through the years have been sticks. My trucks though, automatics with the exception of a previously owned 71 Monte Carlo.
Because it's significantly faster, can be pretty fun with the paddles and the only other option is the MT82 and that's pure garbage (made even more so in 2018 with the whack gearing).
If the Tremec was available in all GTs from 2015 on I would say the decision would've been alot harder. But given the state of the current manual choice for GTs, it's almost a no brainer.
Same here, couldn't stand the cheap look of the stock shifter. That was the first mod I did on my Mach 1. the WM cue ball is a solid piece!
Agreed I drag race my manual but Iām under no illusions about it. If you want to drag race a lot get an auto 100%, also if the car is over 700 hp just get an auto.Shifting is more entertaining than an auto, but the mt82 is not the best for spirited or dragstrip use, If your going to drag race car get the auto, its 1/2 second faster in 1/4 mile and just rips thru the gears. My 2020 stock auto gtcs ran 12.13 bone stock and with drag radials and skinnies up front ran 11.88 @ 119.4 mph. If no interest in racing get stick,