| grabbing the next gear (or two) lower. If you're an accomplished driver, it's second nature and you're likely to match the time it takes an auto to kick down if not beat it. As for stop and go traffic, that's a different issue but I've yet to find myself wanting to do a manual to auto swap. I've driven a car with a line controller and from *my* experience, I didn't see anything that special about it to warrant wanting an auto over a manual. That's my $0.02. Dave
 This car is probably owned by a snowboarder. Sig Quotes: "I JUST saw your polls post" email from BigTDogg on March 24, 2009 in reference to this polls post from Jan 7, 2009. "Your sausage scares me!" - TT-XTZ 6/13/05 "Or he's having a rough week like the rest of us and decided to take out his agressions of not being breast fed on me." BigTDogg 15:45, 09/25/03 "Pick her up from day care and take her to Dairy Queen for a snow cone." YugoBernie 1/7/04 of course those are canadian bannings and beatings, which after the conversion rate is really only a "hey! stop that!" Chris(NJ) 1/14/04 see the green "n" next to my name? what's COZ? (n/m) - 300zx88 8/11/04 |