Petrol or diesel?

glowgirl_2

Hintza wrote: »

Buy an auto box. I changed 12 years ago much more chilled, obviously getting too old...:D

Thats very ironic as I had an automatic licence and have just upgraded it to duel so that the car I buy is cheaper, its £900 more expensive for an auto, as well I really love manual driving, maybe I'm going backwards;)

rob_wiltshire

I think automatics are brilliant in cars with a largish engine but are otherwise to be avoided - I have driven some TRULY AWFUL automatics in the 1300-2000cc range and some really great ones in cars of 3.0 litre upwards.

Hintza

rob_wiltshire wrote: »

- I have driven some TRULY AWFUL automatics in the 1300-2000cc range

Drove a Mk2 Escort 1.3 n mettalic brown with auto many years ago that put me off them for 20 odd years.....:eek:

deb64

Plus they do less MPG than an equivalent manual and road tax is higher than equivalent manual as for some reason they are not as clean on emissions as i have found out with my Micra auto.