Manual vs automatic tranny, mine is bigger than yours

Posted by buickanddeere on June 14, 2007 at 10:29:09 from (216.183.133.122):

In Reply to: Manual vs automatic tranny posted by CWL on June 14, 2007 at 04:40:28:

Depends if you are choosing the transmission that proves you more of a "he man" and a “brilliant he man” at that. Or the transmission that means your are a "girly man". Now if you can get your ego/emotions and your d*ck out of the way of making a decision.
Both Auto & Manual transmission have their place. Defining their place is the problem. Nobody calls a bulldozer operator a weenie because his machine has a torque converter.
I like a five or six speed fully synchronized manual with overdrive as much as anybody.
As for being practical, resale value or the manufacture being able to meet emission & fuel economy targets. And to limit warranty claim costs. Automatics win hands down. The automatics since the introduction of computer control, lockup torque & overdrive are not the p.o.c automatics of the 60, 70, 80 & early 90's.
If anybody can remember, garages were littered with piles of burned clutch plates, scored pressure plates/flywheels and broken transmission gears until the 1980’s. Drivers can break more manuals per mile than automatics.
Get with the times. This is sounding like those people who believe in diesel pickups vs. gassers As if they were comparing a 1970's 400 Chev with points ignition, carbureted with a 3 speed TH400. Vs. a Dodge pickup with an early Cummins with a mechanical inline injection pump, no egr and a 5 speed manual trans. That gasser vs. diesel decision isn’t as clear as it used to be but that’s another topic.
Real Men in this country have pretty much faded away after North America was explored/developed and with the passing of WWII/Korea & Nam veterans. Very very few “men” have had to be a “man” being born after 1930 and 1955 or so at best. Post WWII North American society has been coddled with ease and luxury since. Maybe why we are getting fat, lazy, “middle aged” and non competitive against young, keen hungry countries.

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• Re: Manual vs automatic tranny, mine is bigger than yours Mike (WA) 12:41:35 06/14/07 (1)
  • Re: Manual vs automatic tranny, mine is bigger than yours RustyFarmall 14:54:53 06/14/07 (0)

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