Manual Transmission? Yea or Nay?
Still looking for the first truck in preparation for our first RV sometime next year and I've pretty much narrowed it down to an F2/350 with the V10. Not sure I want to roll the dice with a 6.0 Diese...
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When I bought my most recent manual transmission vehicle, it was a 2004 Subaru Forester (since traded in). I did my homework, and the manual transmission Forester had HIGHER tow rating, HIGHER economy, and LOWER purchase price. However, finding one turned into a hunt. I ended up driving 3 hours to a dealership to buy the ONLY 5-speed Forester on the lot. And of course, it was the stripper 2.5X model so I had to skip all the cool luxuries like climate control. However that vehicle ran twice as fast out of the hole as the same model with an automatic (test drove both), and it shifted like butter with zero clutch effort. My wife loved it also.
You might have did your homework but I would give you a poor grade.
EPA Forrester mileage. At least 1 out of your three homework assigments were 100% wrong; I did not grade the other 2 but only 66% correct is an F grade in any class. :p
The auto beats out the manual in one model and a dead heat in the other. Apples to apples. But then again if you always drove on the highway you would want that blazing 1 MPG gain with a row boat. But then you would need your car towed the rest of the time. :B
