"A. Smith" <ecarecar@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:11iipt7ddi5mq62@corp.supernews.com:

> Honda's web site says the 2006 Civic gets EPA
> 38 mpg with the manual transmission and 40 mpg
> with the automatic.
>
> What's "wrong" here?
>


Nothing at all.

Modern automatics are astonishingly efficient. Manuals are subject to user
ineptness.

I'd say about 99.999% of manual transmission users cannot shift as well as
a modern computer-controlled automatic. And that includes me.

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