I Can’t Stand Automatic Sports Cars or Their Drivers
September 16, 2008 5:12 pm Automatic, RantI’ve never owned an automatic car in my life. I did drive my mom’s auto ’93 Accord in high school for a while, but that was as close as I ever got. I learned to drive in an ’80 Subaru station wagon, then bought a ’91 Honda Civic HB, a ’95 Acura Integra and now my beloved ’04 s2000, all with manual transmissions.
I know that the majority of the cars on the road are automatics, and most of the time I could care less what someone else is driving, but it drives me nuts when people buy expensive sporty-cars with an automatic transmission and talk about all of the “racing” they’ve done and random cars they’ve “beat.” I’ve got a friend (sorry if you’re reading Cos =p) that has a BMW 335i, which is a pretty fast car… but it’s an automatic (regular automatic, not fancy paddle shift w/clutch like the M3). Every time he starts to mention a Porsche he “smoked” or a motorcycle he beat, i usually just roll my eyes and change the subject, ’cause otherwise it’s just going to become a fight.
When you drive an automatic, you have almost nothing to do with the performance of your car. You should be faster than cars that are faster than you, and slower than cars that are slower. If you “race” an automatic car, you might as well just email each other the standard 0-60 or quarter mile times and be done with it. If you “beat” a manual car that should be faster than you, that means the other driver sucked, there was nothing special about how hard you pushed the accelerator.
With a manual car, a lot of it comes down to the driver. There’s a wide range of driving abilities out there so you can compete with a variety of cars in your class and if you beat a car that should be faster than you, you have something to be proud of. If I were to run against a manual 335i with a medium/poor driver I would likely beat him and could continue my disdain for BMW drivers (again, sorry Cos), if the same car had a good/medium driver, me and my s2000 would likely lose and their BMW superiority complex would remain intact… but at least in this scenario, they would have earned it.
Alex G. :
Date: September 16, 2008 @ 10:01 pm
I guess I agree with you for the most part Unless you yourself built that engine and put it together Then it doesn’t really matter if its automatic or not
Thrifty :
Date: October 22, 2008 @ 2:04 am
Well said Alex G, couldn’t agree with you more on your comment
Find Cars Online :
Date: October 22, 2008 @ 11:14 pm
I find that Automatic drivers become lazy, not that I would mind having an automatic for the traffic would make it a lot easier thats for sure
scott :
Date: February 12, 2009 @ 6:21 am
listen tossa! it might be fine for you to rant and rave about auto drives, but spare a pea section of your brain if you can afford that much, for those of us, through no fault of our own,who are unable to drive manuals anymore(stroke)or other medical condition.or hope on a road bike and tear off at a whim.
think about that dickhead!!!!
vinnie :
Date: March 28, 2009 @ 2:27 am
i totally disagree with u mr, cannot stand auto cars coz drivin auto n manual is easy to drive. manual u need to no how to chnge the gear which is just pressing the clutch n move the gear which is nt hard n auto is better coz u just need to accelerate n handle the stirings .well wat skills r needed in drivin both is how to estimate the speed of the other cars n estimating the range of turning the car etc…….so their should b no pride winning in race wid auto or manual is the sme thing n abt speed manual is better in one way tht u can drive the most out of evry acceleration but wen autos gets the most out of itself thn it can go beat manual easily………yh auto u need tha skills to get the most of speed out of every acceleration wich is hard to do mr.pride with no logic
Sam :
Date: September 10, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
I agree about auto rant.
Scott , you dip shit , don’t count the handy caped people who drive auto’s thats fair point. But whats not ok its the fat bastards who drive autos and lazy people (the majority who are not disabled). Think about that dickhead!
Vinnie , stfu you obviously don’t know anything about driving.
MI Used Cars :
Date: May 11, 2011 @ 8:14 am
I agree. Manual sports cars are much better.
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Lolly Lawls :
Date: June 4, 2011 @ 3:10 pm
You’re a fucking shithead.