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A manual with properly planned gear ratios and an intelligent driver is always better, IMHO. Automatics throw too much away with TC slippage during acceleration and climbing hills. A MT driver runs away on downhill coasts and coasting to stops. If someone's drive is 95% highway, both AT and MT are in top gear 95% of the time, so what's the point in paying $1000 more for the AT? Because it saves four tedious manual gearshifts per day?
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Darrell
Boycotting Exxon since 1989, BP since 2010
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? George Carlin
Mean Green Toaster Machine
49.5 mpg avg over 53,000 miles. 176% of '08 EPA
Best flat drive 94.5 mpg for 10.1 mi
Longest tank 1033 km (642 mi) on 10.56 gal = 60.8 mpg
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