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Home now with a $45k 2015 Audi A4 loaner. Might not want to give it back next week. Will be interesting to see how I like driving this. Just driving home from the dealer and I am reaching for the gear shift and left foot is floating around on the floor looking for a clutch. Maybe I should roadtrip down to see my sis in the Quad Cities this weekend and test it out.
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Oh, and something for Wxman, my tow truck driver was a guy my age and a retired commercial pilot. In the summer he has a charter fishing boat on Lake Michigan. If you have to ride in a tow truck with some stranger for a 100 miles make it someone interesting.
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It wasn't the end of the work except for the part where I was wearing flip flops. My feet are so blistered lol
I have this problem constantly in other peoples cars. I haven't owned an automatic since 2003 :yes:
JSmith, good luck on your defense.
Boxster, sorry to hear about the car, enjoy the loaner. I'm assuming the Audi has cruise, did that work well with a manual transmission? One of the cars I'm looking at has a 5 speed manual with cruise.
Boxster, sorry to hear about the car, enjoy the loaner. I'm assuming the Audi has cruise, did that work well with a manual transmission? One of the cars I'm looking at has a 5 speed manual with cruise.
Funny you should mention a manual with cruise. The only manual I've owned without cruise, which I found incredibly odd considering its predecessor has it, was my 2003 Evolution VIII. Imagine my surprise discovering this as I was driving my new baby home from Tacoma WA back to Muscatine IA :twitcy:
My old Audi is a six-speed with cruise. You can't shift without it shutting the speed off but generally when it is engaged I am in 6th. At highway speed it is a very good and smooth control.
I seemed I had one of the few functioning cruise controls on I-35 the last two days. Thought most cars had them so they must all be broken or people cannot operate/set them. Man, folks yo-yo'd their speed all over the place.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I'm sure a bunch of them stayed in the left lane doing this, too...
I have never owned an automatic and first car was a 1968 MGB with only 9K miles on it so you can do the number of years math.
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I was all "Pick a speed, any speed!" Just pick one so I can figure whether to drop in behind you or pass you.
There is just something nice about the added degree of control and the feel of actually driving a car rather than whatever you would classify operating an automatic. You have a little classier sense of style in cars than me however lol
My manuals have been:
1995 Eclipse GST
1998 Eclipse GSX
2003 Evolution VIII
2011 Evolution X
2004 WRX STI
2015 FRS
The FRS with the manual is a total RWD go kart! Its a blast to drive but the power leaves a lot to be desired. I have eyes on another Evo VIII, IX or X or maybe the BRZ STI depending on what that thing turns out to actually be.
Once I've got a job and some money saved up (which may be a while if I get a postdoc) I want to find a cheap stick shift to learn with. The only manual I've ever driven (other than taking a motorcycle to second gear a couple times) is a relative's 70's dodge pickup that you didn't really need to use the clutch to shift. I imagine I won't be able to do the same when I get the car I actually want.
I would suggest one of the 1st or 2nd gen eclipses to learn on. Thats what I learned on and it went pretty smooth. As long as someone hasn't riced it to hell and back, the GS (Not GST or GSX, thats too much power for a learner) has silky smooth clutch.
When I bought my car, I said I don't care about bells and whistles. Just make sure it's got power windows and I'm good.
I had no idea cruise control was considered a "bell and whistle." I seriously thought it was standard on any automatic transmission car.
So you're saying I should avoid all the $500 ones with green lights on the bottom.
Sorry 'bout the audi, box...unless you're at the "I can't justify a new car since this one's not worth enough to trade/sell, but runs too well to junk, so I hope this Ford Pieceofshit dies" stage like me, then...I guess congrats!
If it has more than a cold air intake and exhaust, run away as fast as you can! It doesn't matter whether you overpay for a lemon by a dollar or a thousand dollars, overpaying is overpayingSo you're saying I should avoid all the $500 ones with green lights on the bottom.
I really stretched for that shameless Fast and Furious reference. Enjoy! :yes:
If it has more than a cold air intake and exhaust, run away as fast as you can! It doesn't matter whether you overpay for a lemon by a dollar or a thousand dollars, overpaying is overpaying
I really stretched for that shameless Fast and Furious reference. Enjoy! :yes:
So I should get one with the cold air exhaust. Got it.
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