Automatics changing my view.

[VetteOwner]

maybe theyve changed alot since 97 (newest car we have, tranny pisses me off 3.0v6 tarus) can accelerate lightly and you would expect ti to shift around 2-3K no this thing loves to hold onto gears(always have since we got it with 30k miles, now has 100k+). doesnt engine brake at all (well does but takes a friggin mile to do so)

the one car i loved and would have been my first car the tranny died a year before i got my license. car wasnt worth enough to get it fixed (1977 chevy caprecee) first reverse went out, drove it around for awhile like that till drive went out(ever try to push around a 2 ton car? )

our van 96 aerostar it behaves like a manual (in the sense of engine brakeing) let off the gas almost instantly starts to brake same deal with it with the slow shifting.

the junkmobile (86 chevy celebrity) that thing doesnt know when to downshift lol speed drops it just starts bogging the engine down.

i do know the chevette auto trannies are horrid (break often and kill what little getup and go the car has).
the manual trannies are pretty tough tho.

i belive my s-10 has the t-5 tranny in it. it hasnt given me any problems, still on the origional clutch (145K miles)

now the model AA tranny or shall i say trannies(does have 2 seperate ones) those are going to take some getting used to with the double clutching (straight gears, no synchros at all) then the dual high (1:1 ratio then something that slows it down even more) that you pretty much set it before you move (used on the commercial model A's hence why you can use about 35hp to move 1.5 tons)

i dunno i guess while im young i like being in control of all aspects of the car (hence why i hate ABS TCS whatever else) that manual trannies make 4 cyl cars fun and make em seem fast lol. when my dad buys cars he expects to keep them till they blow up (literally sometimes) or a major repair is more than the cars value. so when theres all these electronic trannies and all sorts of stuff that uses servos or actuators that will fail with time rather just have some mechanical linkage setup...or since we like to do our own service work that when a computer buggers up or something fails and throws the SES light were SOL since we dont own a obdII scanner or anything...