Manual or Auto towcar

 Pray tell us what car was it that give you such a bad experience of automatics Camelot ?

I had an Auto with the T bar shift for a couple of years but I went back to Manual shift, I dare say I’ll try Auto again in the future but I do like shifting gears, it keeps my brain active👍🏻🤷🏻‍♂️

These days I’m grateful that my brain has one less thing to think about🤣🤣🤣

For me it depends on how I'm feeling, I like both. It is more relaxing to use the auto especially in heavy town traffic but then sometimes I prefer to have more control on which gear I'm in for a given situation. But if I had to choose one to use for ever it's probably auto.

I considered one of those ‘depends how I’m feeling vehicles’ C, upon researching them I realised they cost twice as much so I swerved the idea & stuck with my mandraulically operated option👍🏻😂

Forty years ago when they weren’t so common I bought an automatic car I loved it but I got so much ‘stick’ from friends and colleagues, ‘the gear box will need replacing and be costly’, ‘you are not in control’, etc etc. I’ve continued to drive an auto for all these years and now it seems most people do like them. Don’t think I could drive a manual now.

Only auto I spent any time with was a hire car in the USA about fifteen years ago, driving from Charlotte NC to Orlando FL and back. Took a little while getting used to but the downside when I came home, I'd forget to depress the clutch when stopping. I've always had manuals as that was the car I was looking at. No real preference either way. We'll all be auto's once we've gone electric.

I do the opposite when coming to a stop in the auto my left foot can't stop pushing a pedal that isn't there.

two feet .... two pedals. I left foot brake & find I have to think about right foot braking when in a manual. Pressing the clutch doesn't slow the car very much .... 🙄

full respect there then. I've never been able to master left foot braking and nowhere near as accurate as using my right foot. 

I used to drive my dad mad by double de-clutching in his car, it didn't need it but I though I was being sporty and clever. I can still hear him saying do that in your own car and ruin your own clutch.

To my shame when I did get my own car I never did it