OT: Pretty-cool car video
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
Pretty-cool car-video that showed up on my YouTube recommended list – I’ve seen car-videos from that YouTube-channel b/f and they are often pretty-cool – it’s a drag-race b/w a Lucid-EV; Tesla-Plad; a Bugatti; and then against a Ducati motorcycle:
https://youtu.be/EyDpQpcPpuc
https://youtu.be/EyDpQpcPpuc
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Wouldn't want the Bugatti because I think automatic trans on a monster like that is stupid unless you're a girl. EVs are of zero interest to me no matter how fast they are.
Now that said, if I really did have my choice, obviously I would take the $4,000,000 Bugatti, sell it, pay the 30 grand or whatever for the Ducati, and pocket the rest. But until that day comes, I'll stick with my Mazda and my Harley.
AFAIK modern-high-performance-automatics are considerably faster than stick-shift – back-in-the-day it wasn’t a true-sports-car if it wasn’t a stick; but today’s high-performance-automatics are def not the automatics of 20 years ago.
The difference I think is closer to a full-second or a bit-more - it's computerized-technology vs a human-being
BTW I learned to drive on a 1962 Ford Galaxy with a column shift not cool at all.
After that almost every vehicle I ever purchased had a manual trans. The only two that were automatic were cars I "inherited". My mom had a 92 (or 93?) Volvo 850. It was about 15 years old and only had 20,000 miles. Nearly mint condition. Garage kept, all maintenance done by the Volvo dealer, never even a fender bender. She just wanted something new, and the trade-in offer from the dealer was insulting, so I took it off her hands for a few thousand. It was my very first car that had power windows instead of roll-downs, and power locks plus heated seats and mirrors were a bonus. The auto trans was awkward to me, but the "luxury" was fantastic.
I drove that car until it had about 100,000 miles. Still ran like a top. Then a drunk ploughed through a red light at about 50 mph, smashed into the driver side front wheel, broke the axle, and sent me spinning into a telephone pole. The car was totaled but I think it saved my life. It was built like a fucking tank.
So my wife and I went out shopping for a new car "for me". End result, SHE got a new car and I just started driving her old Honda, also an automatic.
I have to laugh every time I hear about an attempted auto theft or car-jacking when the crook abandons the heist because he can't drive stick. I also feel like manual trans just gives you more control over the car. How many times we hear about a tragedy because the "accelerator got stuck". Plus I've always found that while driving automatic I'm more easily distracted by texting or whatever. Less so when I'm constantly using all four limbs to drive the car.