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Originally Posted by rwthomas1
So you call it convenient, I call it lazy and boring. We each have a definition and are happy with it.
RT
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I don't take a "holier than thou" approach and that my way is the way to the holy grail. As I said, I don't see the boring part because having driven stick before, I don't see the excitement. Sure, when you first start, it might be something new. After a while, you get used to it and the novelty wears off. That is, until the kids come around and see that you have a sports car and a stick and you get to rail on the "dogamatics". Since I don't get into that and I don't autocross much and drag more, I am not sure what the excitement is.
Edit: You don't try and figure out which gear it has to go into, do you? The most I have done is downshift by 1 gear. I can't think that you downshift by more than that for the most part. Seems like it is almost equivalent to mastering the turn signal when making a turn. When I first started driving it, it was a challenge to NOT forget. Today, make a turn and it is automatic. Almost have to think NOT to do it during autocross as I am going onto the track. After a while, it became about as exciting as turning that turn signal. Almost habit. As such, I am not sure what the big excitement is. I bought a stick because I was younger and more impressionable and people said that once you go stick, you'll never go back. I almost lost my shirt till someone like you came along and bought that car and I could sell them on the excitement of a stick. Technically, I didn't lie since I was telling him about the excitement when I first started learning and omitted the "after a while, it got boring" part.
In an MB, no way you could give me a stick if it is 99 or earlier. I think they learned how to make a decent cupholder after 2005. My 99 cupholder is so cheesy that I have to hold my drinks when I drive