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Originally Posted by Ryland
All of the cars and the truck at work are automatic and I would ever buy one, they are harder to control, they get worse mileage and make the vehicles all feel sluggish.
I've taught a handful of people how to drive a manual and it tends to take me an hour from the time we first start before I can have them doing a hill starts smoothly without using the hand brake.
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I know what you mean about the control thing, until I got in the habit of using manual-mode to engine brake before corners, it felt like I was driving around corners in neutral.
The sluggish thing is interesting, I find that our Sonata is amazingly quick from 0-40mph, but after that it really wants a stronger lockup so it doesn't have to rev so high to get up to speed (as in, lockup and then accelerate).
I've never bothered to learn to do hill starts without the handbrake, but now that I've heard it talked about twice on here in the last day, I'm going to have to teach myself.