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[milktree.livejournal.com]

I hate hate hate automatic transmissions. I wouldn't own one unless it was absolutely necessary.

I have yet to drive an automatic transmission car that didn't annoy me because it failed to shift at the "right place". The best I've driven only annoyed me a little bit.

By "right", I mean one that lets me control what the car does. I'm pretty sure I'm doing it "right" because I still get better mileage in my 16 year old car with 1/4 million miles on it than Honda claimed it could when it was new. And as palmwiz can (hopefully) confirm, I'm pretty good at pushing it in the "performance" arena too. Which is to say, I'm pretty confident I know what I'm doing, and the automatic transmission doesn't.


However, I've never driven a CVT or true auto-shift manual transmission car like an F1 car that actually has a true non-viscous clutch and a computer to hydraulically control it.