Yeh, you drive a Maxima...it's not exactly a Corolla. Why did you buy that instead of something smaller?
Allow me to answer that for him, it is because it's not as big as an SUV. :awe:
This is true on a lot of vehicles. If you're looking at a used car that is 10 years old and it has an automatic transmission, you know the previous owner bagged the fuck out of it. Automatic transmission fluid should be changed several times throughout the life of the car because ATF breaks down the same way engine oil does. Of course nobody does this so the transmission fluid breaks down, the automatic transmission starts slipping, and the thing is totally fucked.It's kind of funny, on the used Porsche market, many people want to avoid the Tiptronic equipped models and the manual transmission cars are more sought after.
Do people even attempt to use all of the power in those V6 or V8 cars? I drive a Toyota Corolla, possibly the slowest car ever made, and I still seem to accelerate much harder than everyone else on the road. When I'm flooring it to merge onto the freeway, the guy infront of me who's dragging ass is often driving a vehicle that far outperforms my vehicle. Even a Toyota Sienna will completely destroy a Corolla in both 0-60 and quarter mile, but I'm always waiting on these people to go faster. wtf?Funny part is that many compact and midsize SUV's get about as good as milage as a Maxima.
Do people even attempt to use all of the power in those V6 or V8 cars? I drive a Toyota Corolla, possibly the slowest car ever made, and I still seem to accelerate much harder than everyone else on the road. When I'm flooring it to merge onto the freeway, the guy infront of me who's dragging ass is often driving a vehicle that far outperforms my vehicle. Even a Toyota Sienna will completely destroy a Corolla in both 0-60 and quarter mile, but I'm always waiting on these people to go faster. wtf?
Yeh, you drive a Maxima...it's not exactly a Corolla. Why did you buy that instead of something smaller?
Do people even attempt to use all of the power in those V6 or V8 cars? I drive a Toyota Corolla, possibly the slowest car ever made, and I still seem to accelerate much harder than everyone else on the road. When I'm flooring it to merge onto the freeway, the guy infront of me who's dragging ass is often driving a vehicle that far outperforms my vehicle. Even a Toyota Sienna will completely destroy a Corolla in both 0-60 and quarter mile, but I'm always waiting on these people to go faster. wtf?
Touche'
I think it is a perfectly reasonable car for a small family such as mine...couldn't fit the three of us and a dog in a Lotus Elise you know.
is this thread still about manuals or what
my honda fit behaves in this way except it also does not honor my upshifts when going uphill. i swear my car has a motion sensor and knows when im going downhill or uphill...
Conversations evolve and change, one subject may bring about another, especially seven pages in. Get over it.
Btw, Jules, a fat ass pig of a Camaro SS can stop in the same distance as an Exige S. Thoughts?
Thoughts? I can't get past the ugly interior of the Camaro...otherwise, I kind of like it.
Conversations evolve and change, one subject may bring about another, especially seven pages in. Get over it.
Btw, Jules, a fat ass pig of a Camaro SS can stop in the same distance as an Exige S. Thoughts?
What's sad is the Isuzu Vehicross can do about the same in 60-0 as well (108 ft)
However 117 ft of the SS is not anywhere close to the 105 ft of the Exige.
You still can't force it to upshift to a silly gear, like if you're at 15mph it won't let you go to 5th. I've always thought that the "sport shift" on most cars is just an embarrassment more than anything. A silly illusion and wasted time and money.On many new transmissions this isn't necessarily true. They'll let you bounce off the rev limiter all you want and the only thing it keeps you from doing is shifting too low and running the revs up (a DSG does the same).
You still can't force it to upshift to a silly gear, like if you're at 15mph it won't let you go to 5th. I've always thought that the "sport shift" on most cars is just an embarrassment more than anything. A silly illusion and wasted time and money.
I know that most people don't consider doing your own repairs much these days, but that would be my reason to choose a manual in a car over an auto.
Most automatic transmissions require a set of specialty tools to disassemble and repair properly.
I can change a clutch in anything or replace a synchro or a bearing in a manual.
That said I drive autos now, since my daily job can require enough clutch pushing for a lifetime.
I know that most people don't consider doing your own repairs much these days, but that would be my reason to choose a manual in a car over an auto.
Most automatic transmissions require a set of specialty tools to disassemble and repair properly.
I can change a clutch in anything or replace a synchro or a bearing in a manual.
That said I drive autos now, since my daily job can require enough clutch pushing for a lifetime.