One random thing you enjoy.

[Serapth]

Originally Posted by Bone

Especially Dead Milkmen and Violent Femmes, they are basically sibling bands in my eyes. Throw a little Dead Kennedys and EARLY Red Hot Chili Peppers and I'll feel like I'm riding my BMX bike around looking for someone to buy me smokes.

Yeah, my music tastes really were formed then too.

Next song up was Goldfinger's cover of 99 Red Balloons, easily in my top 2 favorite covers of all time. ( Alien Ant Farm Smooth Criminal probably being number 1). Now Dropkick Murphies are playing, a predictable but solid choice.

I'm in audio heaven. Considering I can never think of what I want to listen to, this option is flawless.

[TheKeck]

I enjoy skipping stones.

Have I mentioned that before?

[muddi900]

Manual Cars. Especially after driving automatic for such a long period.

[SilentScreams]

I've only ever driven one automatic and I hated it. I drove my dads Pajero to his new place for him. It's like riding a bike with training wheels...it's easy, but it's boring as Hell.

[civil_dead]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Manual Cars. Especially after driving automatic for such a long period.

muddi, I am concerned about how much we are starting to agree on things. Either one of us is becoming less of an asshole or the other is becoming more of one. I'll let the community decide which is which.

Driving manual is about as close to automotive erotica as I get. There is something about feeling so connected, so in charge of a vehicle that you control every aspect of its movement. Driving automatic is the equivalent of fucking a corpse.

[Typhus]

Bouncy Castles. I did not appreciate these nearly enough when I was a child. Now? Love em!

[muddi900]

I think I am becoming more of an asshole, though I believe that is due to all the money and the bitches and the blow.


What's your excuse?

[Vandabo]

I love the feeling of driving a manual when I'm actually driving, but fuck that noise for slogging through traffic.

[carnage11]

Originally Posted by Vandabo

I love the feeling of driving a manual when I'm actually driving, but fuck that noise for slogging through traffic.

Especially when driving through a hilly or mountainous area.

That's why I prefer my Hyundai's Shiftronic transmission. No clutch, but I still can choose when to shift for acceleration or increased braking.

[Bone]

Hilly and mountainous areas are exactly why I love having a manual transmission. Traffic or not.

My Jeep has hill-assist technology which holds the vehicle in place immediately after releasing the brake (supposed to make hill starts easier) but I found that shit annoying and turned it off. You auto-tranny pantywaists might have liked it.

[Panthera]

I don't want to ever have to give a shit about what my clutch is doing if my vehicle has more than two wheels.

[muddi900]

Why the hell do you offroad with an automatic transmission?

Also, triptronic is what children use to feel like men...

Actually the systems on high-end cars are nearly as good as manual transmissions, so i have hope

[Bone]

Who is offroading with automatic? Well, a lot of 4x4 guys do actually. The actual hardcore rock crawlers do it. Put your transfer case in 4LO and it will move at 1 MPH on its own.

But mine is a standard. I'm not a hardcore rock crawler, but I do offroad from time to time.

[J Arcane]

Originally Posted by muddi900

Why the hell do you offroad with an automatic transmission?

Also, triptronic is what children use to feel like men...

Actually the systems on high-end cars are nearly as good as manual transmissions, so i have hope

A good many British and American off-roaders come standard with automatic transmissions. Usually they have controls for the gear box though, for when you need more or less torque, etc.

Also, most high-end paddle shift systems are essentially shift-tronic type systems now. IIRC, Ferrari is even putting full on automatic mode in some of their cars now. When the computer can shift faster than a human can blink, the existence of a manual control is mostly for stroking the traditionalist ego at that point.

[Bone]

Originally Posted by Panthera

I don't want to ever have to give a shit about what my clutch is doing if my vehicle has more than two wheels.

I prefer the control available to me to slow my car down without brakes or get up to speed quicker for a highway entrance. It's also proven that most manual transmissions (driven properly) provide better gas mileage over all but the most advanced auto transmissions.

[PathMaster]

How often are manuals driven properly? And I assume recent transmissions follow that advanced thought?

I really could care a less about manual v automatic. To spoiler a car or not, that is the question?!!!

Joking!

[Vigil80]

Aside from all that, it isn't a crime to have fun driving, and driving manual can be fun.

Sometimes I miss my stick...

[Vandabo]

I definitely wish for the instant response of a manual when accelerating, but you can still drop many automatic cars into a lower gear for going down long hills, etc.

[J Arcane]

Me, I'm actually physically incapable of driving a manual, so the slow shift to automatics for high-end vehicles is a boon for me.

[PathMaster]

Originally Posted by Vandabo

I definitely wish for the instant response of a manual when accelerating, but you can still drop many automatic cars into a lower gear for going down long hills, etc.

I had to have my car in first gear going up and down Mount Washington last month. It was a requirement. I had never heard so many cars go so slow and be so loud.