I really wouldn't believe that vw's crappy automatic tranny could make the 1.8T beetle faster than the 5-speed. Those transmissions shift really slowly and they're unreliable anyhow. There isn't enough turbo lag on the 1.8T that you need the auto tranny to keep the turbo spooled. In my experience, once you're accelerating hard in the 1.8T, there's no lag between shifts. The automatic probably feels a bit faster off the line in normal driving (most automatics do) but in the end, the 5-speed is probably faster around a track (or straight down one).
FWIW, in our fleet of 40ish new VW's, we've had to do three transmissions. None of those cars have over 20K miles on them. So far (knock on wood) the 20 civics have had no such problem. At 07:40 PM 9/18/01 EDT, [email protected] wrote: > I know i read or heard this somewhere. > >Preston Hoover >'89 Jetta GLI ************** Patrick Austin [email protected] (617)782-5060 ************** _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
