Send this video to all your automatic driving friends!
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Send this video to all your automatic driving friends!
Stick shiftin since '77
theholycow wrote:Why in the world would you even want to be as smooth as an automatic? Might as well just drive an automatic...
Re: Send this video to all your automatic driving friends!
That guy is clueless. He said a lot of things that were incorrect. He sounds like a typical salesman to me, talking with authority, but not knowing what he's talking about half the time.
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I only wish he were the typical salesman. Most could not care less about manual transmissions unless it will put another buck in their pocket. Sure he is sometimes inaccurate, sometimes hyperbolic, sometimes absurd (and a poor public speaker too), but he is oriented in the right direction. A fair amount of truth to the statement about drivers being too distracted by technology, food, etc. to drive a stick.Shadow wrote:That guy is clueless. He said a lot of things that were incorrect. He sounds like a typical salesman to me, talking with authority, but not knowing what he's talking about half the time.
I was only kidding about sending this to your automatic driving friends, and his presentation likely will bore them, but it would be great for them to get a guy like him on the lot, who will try to steer them to trying out a manual, instead of steering them to the fanciest and most convenience loaded blob SUV on the lot.
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theholycow wrote:Why in the world would you even want to be as smooth as an automatic? Might as well just drive an automatic...
Re: Send this video to all your automatic driving friends!
Hey...some days, I like the convenience of driving my loaded blob SUVInlinePaul wrote:Shadow wrote:I was only kidding about sending this to your automatic driving friends, and his presentation likely will bore them, but it would be great for them to get a guy like him on the lot, who will try to steer them to trying out a manual, instead of steering them to the fanciest and most convenience loaded blob SUV on the lot.
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Re: Send this video to all your automatic driving friends!
i had hope at the very beginning of the video; that hope was quickly and thoroughly decimated. the presenter is boring, uninformed and doesn't know how to make a good argument.
i'm an automatic driver, and i do not endorse this video
i'm an automatic driver, and i do not endorse this video
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