Want opinions automatic vs. manual transmission

[brickhardmeat]

Originally Posted by BailOut

I bought a manual for 2 reasons:

1) I live in a mountainous area and have a mountainous commute, and nothing trashes an automatic transmission faster than listening to it fighting with itself over which gear to hold on quickly changing grades. Sure, you can always force it into a gear, but if I'm handling the shifter like that I may as well just have a standard and have full control all of the time.

2) I bought the Yaris with the specific plan of hypermiling it, and a manual transmission makes things like extended engine braking for a fuel cut-off, bump starting in a high gear, RPM matching for ICE re-entry after a FAS, Pulse & Glide, etc. much easier to accomplish.


My record tank so far was 52.095 MPG. I don't think I could have done quite that well with an automatic.

yes but your body requires more organic food to shift those gears and also this causes your body to have to work harder leading to more use of the a/c and not to mention the fuel it takes to grow/deliver that organic food that you eat and the truck that gets it to the grocery store and the energy to keep it fresh and so on and so fourth