Looking for opinions on automatic vs stick
I'm looking at fords - F350 v10 dually between 1999 and 2005 and am wanting to know which performs better and holds up better, automatic transmissions or 5 speed manual transmissions. I'd appreciate y...
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Jefe 4x4 wrote:
Auto transmissions now-o-days are light years ahead of the ones made even a decade ago. The loss in mpg's, visavis a manual has evaporated.
...man, you can say that again! Its nary impossible to find a stick in todays trucks (the exception: a Jeep Wrangler). Virtually every high-end sports car (even those costing well in excess of $200,000) have auto (paddle) shifters. I don't think that there is anyone alive that can outshift an automatic in a work truck-- either a Unimog electro-automatic EAS, or North American full-sized 6 or 8 speed auto pick-up -- (or, in the sports car genre: do a 2 Porsche competition: a stick 911 against a 911 GT3 auto tranny....the auto GT3 will win every time). The World's most sophisticated supercar-- the Aston Martin Vulcan ($2.6 million US), used a steering wheel mounted Xtrac, the transaxle sequential (TS) gearbox (this new road car will compete with a Formula 1 track car).
...that being said, I LOVE a stick, not because they are better than modern contemporary auto trannies, but because they are just fun to drive. We've been toying with getting a Wrangler (old and well used) just for the pure pleasure of driving a stick.....again.
