On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:22:48PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > From: "Ken Waller" > > >From: "John Sessoms" <[email protected]> > >Subject: RE: Green mode, a detail I'd forgotten > > > > > >>> On Behalf Of Larry Colen > >>> > >>>>> I'm willing to bet that people like that even buy Leicas. Level of > >>>>> experience or knowledge > >>>>> has nothing to do with how much someone spends on something. Look at > >>>>> how > >>>>> long sports cars > >>>>> have been available with automatic transmissions, even before the modern > >>>>> ones that > >>>>> arguably can out perform human shifting. > >>> > >>> I don't care if the automatic transmission can out perform me in shifting, > >>> it doesn't have as much fun, and is not as much fun to drive as my manual. > >>> > >>> Plus, I regularly get better MPG performance than I would with an auto. > >>> However you slice or dice it, an automatic transmission takes some of the > >>> engine's output for its own operation, and that translates into decreased > >>> MPG. > >I'm not sure that (mileage improvement) would hold true over the new dual > >clutch gearboxes on the same engines. > > I don't think a dual clutch automatic gearbox was an available > option on the 2005 Focus Wagon. I'm sure there's all sorts of > wonderful exotic automotive technology out there. At what cost? > > I'm talking about my experience with an automobile I can pay for ... > and of the options available on *that* car, the *available* manual > transmission made more economic sense for the way I drive.
If you were talking about one car - the 2005 Ford Focus - then you shouldn't have made a generalised dismissive statement about automatics always having decreased MPG. The main reason your manual gearbox in that 2005 Focus gets improved MPG over the automatic is because the manual is a 5-speed, while the automatic is a 4-speed. And even there the difference only really shows up in the highway mileage. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
