[s-cars] RE: Manual Trannies -- was no more Audis

[Bob Rossato]

My sentiments exactly and same automotive history.  My first car was a
hand-me-down from my parents when I was in college.  A '73 Dodge Dart with a
318ci V8 and auto.  For the last 23 years it's been VAG products with proper
gear boxes.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Noland [mailto:wenoland at pacbell.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:15 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com; bob.rossato at att.net
> Subject: Re: Manual Trannies -- was no more Audis
>
>
> Face the facts, Bob -- we're manual tranny dinosaurs.  The old men (who
> rule the world) are getting fat and lazy and the young pups are all
> raised on video games -- neither seems to have the desire to shift for
> themselves. Only my first car had a slushbox and it was a hand-me-down
> beater from my sister -- aka the White Whale. (I'm talking about the car
> here -- not my sister.) The rest have had proper transmissions.
>
> Though I can appreciate the technology behind the DSG and embrace
> certain "driver aids", such as ABS, I dread the day when I'm forced to
> give up the thrill of a properly executed blip-throttle downshift. I
> might be tempted into a sequential manual gearbox (as found in Champ
> Cars), as I have lived with them on motorcycles for years, but that's
> about as far as this dinosaur will go.
>
> Bill Noland
> loving life in the Jurassic Period
>
>
>
> >Actually, I think those technologies are more likely to hasten
> the demise of the true manual.  For me, as long as I have a left
> leg and a right arm I will drive a manual.  No matter how good
> the SMG/DSG type transmissions may be they remove that
> involvement that I so enjoy about driving a manual and just make
> it more like a video game.