Automatics = Lazy Americans, damn right they are!

[Fred Munro]

Luke Rickert wrote:

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> As for automatic transmissions, the only reason, in my humble opinion,
> to use then is if you are physically incapable of shifting a car.
> Otherwise they are mechanically inferior in every way.
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Actually, Luke, there are other reasons. Try pulling a 4000 lb sailboat up a
launch ramp with a manual tranny. You can't beat a big V8 and the torque
multiplication of an auto tranny for this use.

Fred Munro
'94 S4  115k km