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Manual or Automatic?!?!?!

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by 91Toyotabogger, Feb 6, 2010.

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If you where buying a new 2010 TRD 4x4 Tacoma Double Cab which trans would you get?

Poll closed Mar 8, 2010.
  1. Manual

    91 vote(s)
    44.6%
  2. Automatic

    113 vote(s)
    55.4%
  1. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:11 AM
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    jflan

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    That's an easy one OZ....
    Lug it......
    Put the rig in one gear higher than normal and you will much reduce wheel spin.


    Also, if you drive in nasty snow/ice sometimes actually stopping at lights or stop signs doesn't really happen by design. If you run around making pretty stops you're going to get rear-ended sooner or later in those conditions.
    Using your gears for "engine braking", I find is easier and more effective with a manual.
    Some of the newer autos are better at engine braking as engineering attempts to provide this important feature in an automatic.

    I thinks that manuals are superior at both of the above techniques and they are faster to select the correct gear for the condition.
    Power can be removed faster too (read clutch).

    Spent formative years in snow country.
     
  2. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM
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    jflan

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    For the other there will be bunch of auto-loving, whining, wannabe-posers chiming in.
    And prolly an equal number of bad-ass stick lovers.

    The answer always boils down to the same thing.....

    If you wanna steer = automatic
    If you wanna drive = stick

    Slice it and dice it any way you want, it's really true.



    A stick will also keep weak drivers and some wimmen drivers away from your rig.
    A nice byproduct :D
     
  3. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM
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    AndrewFalk

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    It is a skill that fewer and fewer people are learning. If everyone could do it, then it wouldn't be considered a skill.
     
  4. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:43 AM
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    OZ-T

    OZ-T I hate my neighbour

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    Ya , I do all those things in my auto Tacoma , just the same as I did in my manual
     
  5. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:46 AM
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    No ya don't :D
     
  6. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:50 AM
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    OZ-T

    OZ-T I hate my neighbour

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    Much like riving with a froe
     
  7. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:50 AM
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    Pretty much
     
  8. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:50 AM
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    I only know two people with a valid driver license that DO NOT know how to drive manual trans, everyone else I know does know. :notsure:
     
  9. Dec 7, 2011 at 9:51 AM
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    Manual's are annoying, mostly in traffic.
     
  10. Dec 7, 2011 at 10:05 AM
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    Shhhh.....was trying to tuck in under the radar, fool.


    :D
     
  11. Dec 7, 2011 at 10:08 AM
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    ....and a gangsta lean.

    :D_rollin'
     
  12. Dec 7, 2011 at 10:46 AM
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    :)
    Your personal experience does not directly correlate to the experiences of the entire population.
     
  13. Dec 7, 2011 at 11:15 AM
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    How do you know he isn't the publisher of the US census? That would be his personal experience.
     

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