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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Manual: floor it, instant pull. If I want to downshift I will.

Automatic: floor it, hesitation, downshift, revs go higher but nothing happens because it isn't sure if it wants to downshift again, hesitation, downshifts, revs go crazy and outside of power band or just at the top end of it, shitty pull, upshifts almost right after. Finally some pull after wasting three seconds.

I've driven countless various automatic vehicles. They all do that to varying degrees of disappointment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

One of the first cars I ever drove was the family turbo v6 Chevy box van with an auto (column shifter, the best kind for autos). Thing could seat 12 and handled like a stack of mattresses, but I'd crush the gas pedal into the floor and that thing would pull surprisingly well - after 2-3 business days. Between the transmission taking it's time to pick just the right gear and the turbo spooling up I could literally punch it and go "one Mississippi two Mississippi three mississi-" VVVVRRRROOOOOMMM. The delay was so prominent that it actually came full circle and became hilarious and fun to drive, one of the only autos I really liked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Are any of those countless cars ones that have any sort of sport mode? Because i only experience that in cars with no modes (ie permanently in eco mode) or when in the eco modes. Which is a fair enough critique i guess, but also, theyre eco cars for a reason. Nobody cares what happens when you floor it in an eco box while its already upshifted and cruising.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only time I had a delay was when I had a car that took half a second for VTEC to kick in, I’ve never had an automatic that took SECONDS to go vroom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There is a difference between engine noise and actual acceleration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was referring to acceleration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Well then you are misunderstanding what I'm talking about because you're trying to tell me that a behavior that I have noticed to be common on dozens of automatic vehicles that I have driven over two decades doesn't exist.