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Jun 9th, 2021, 14:23 | #51 | |
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Oddly I now drive an Auto truck and a manual car and can only recall one time in the past 5 or 6 years when I have forgotten to put the clutch down in the car as I stop, when I was in a manual truck and an auto car the left foot clutch-brake got hit quite a few times on the way home from work after a long shift, certainly woke me up.
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Jun 9th, 2021, 16:31 | #52 |
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And trying to use the non-existent gear lever with my left hand...in a LHD car. Bruised my knuckles on the door on a few occasions. Embarrassing! Soon learned, though.
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Jun 9th, 2021, 16:36 | #53 |
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Autotragics breed laziness and fecklessness. Same with feather light assisted steering, parking sensors, blind spot sensors, auto braking collision sensors, apps like grammarly, or 'assistants' like Alexa that can adjust everything in your house.
Use it or lose it, suckers. Unless you've got a damn good excuse for needing an auto, such as you've got no legs or you're a taxi driver in a congested city.
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Jun 9th, 2021, 18:32 | #56 | |
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Jun 9th, 2021, 19:11 | #57 |
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These days the auto option is usually more efficient than the manual equivalent. Things have moved on a lot in the last 10 years or so.
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I've seen plenty of fuel economy discussions on the later models where things have moved backwards. Probably down to increasing ratios of EGR.
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Jun 9th, 2021, 19:40 | #59 |
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I had my 2006 S60 D5-185 with 6 speed manual for nearly 6 years and used it on several occasions to travel down to the South of France.
Keeping the speed to around 75mph I often averaged just over 50mpg ( real not computer ) and wonder how some with a similar set up manage to get abysmal figures,
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At one of the companies I worked for, the 5 drivers would get identical brand new vans every 2-3 years, all doing the same fully laden deliveries to the same addresses around Britain on rotation and the difference in the maintenance required for the vehicles was immense. Me and another guy always had zero issues and the other 3 drivers would have really high maintenance bills outside routine servicing and would be in a hire vehicle every few weeks. This was over 9 years, 3 cycles of different vans 3+ million miles across all the vans so a decent sample. When I bought my current car with 150k miles, I never doubted it would still be running fine 60k later.
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