"Dave L" <davelieuREMOVE@MEyahoo.com> wrote in
news:Hqidna9x7q1mqbbeRVn-vg@comcast.com:

>
> "TeGGeR®" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote in message
> news:Xns96D2DDE579871tegger@207.14.113.17...
>> "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.
>>
>
> I noticed some automatics were getting better mpg than a manual -
> sometimes only for city or highway. Can't remember which.
>
> They both have their good and bad points. I love the control and "fun
> factor" of the stick, as long as I'm not in heavy traffic.


I like my manual in any case. Just today I spent a half-hour blipping
forwards a few feet at a time on the freeway to get past an accident.
Better that than lose control the rest of the time with an automatic. Don't
like trannies that change gear all by themselves...


> ie - D.C.
> or Manhattan.


Or the 405 in LA at rush hour(s)...




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