Gear Box

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Who likes manual and who likes auto?

[Buenchico]

Automatic gear boxes are fine with higher-powered engines but horrid with, say, 1.1 or 1.3 litre models.

I'll stick to manual, thank you.

[Hopkirk]

For a lorry, coach or bus - automatic every time.

For a car, manual gearbox please.

[Graham-W]

Either, most of the time.
If I'm doing a lot of city driving the auto-box.
If I'm driving "enthusiasticly" a manual box.

[jake-the-peg]

Can't *stand* automatics!

Maybe I'm just a control freak but *I* want decide when I'm changing gear

The fact that I inevitably forget after a few days hit the 'clutch' and do a Garfield-sticky-toy impression on the windscreen is entirely coincidental

You should only be allowed to drive one if you've failed your manual test at least 5 times!

(rant over)

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Its an 8 speed auto for me.

[jake-the-peg]

Ah don't give up!

You really should go back and have another shot at a proper license! :c)

[EDDIE51]

I prefer manual.
When i was company car driver I just had to take whatever was next in the car pool. I sometimes forgot I was in a manual and drove for miles in 2nd gear thinking I was in 'drive' or kept trying to change gear in an auto.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

I just wish they made a decent van with an auto box.All that changing gear ...whats the point ....it seems very old fashioned on modern roads with the speed restrictions.

[woofgang]

don't mind, have driven both. will stick to manual probably now as I like to keep things the same at my age.

[Hopkirk]

Try a VW van Sparky - they do a good auto.

[erin-x]

I've never driven an automatic... Don't think I fancy it either.

[DangerUXD]

Daily driver, automatic, track car manual. Rear wheel drive on both no deisel!

[eastern]

Had manuals for years and was always suspicious of auto's till I bought a S/H BMW that had an auto box and it was amazing, couldn't even feel it change gear. Then had a series of smaller vehicles and went back to a manual, then I bought a VW Passat and decided to get their DSG box and quite honestly it's the best car I've ever owned, I sold it bought a manual CR-V and I'm sick of it already so I'm currently hunting for another Passat and when I get it I will hang onto it for years. Maybe it's just a getting older thing but I like the easier driving style of auto's.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Why dont you like diesel uxd?

[Baldric]

Prefer Manual, driving an Auto at the moment, Audi Avant, going back to a Manual later this year.

[islasmum]

Automatic now every time - after years of driving delivery vans round London and Home Counties, I've had enough gear changing to last a lifetime

[Traci66]

I had an auto Mondeo years ago but got fed up with it, got an auto Saab now and love it.

[DangerUXD]

Bright spark, dirty, smelly, noising slow, expensive ....need I go on! I accept diesel when I can't tell it's a diesel until then I'll leave it for trucks and tractors.