Price I was quoted
04-10-2010, 02:02 PM
#22
1st Gear Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: VA
Posts: 103
I kinda wish I got an automatic. I plan on going FI and would like to make it a drag racer in the long run. But I figure if I couldn't get a 4.6 the least I could do is get a manual. I love driving it, dream of it every night, but I know I could be a lot faster with an auto. Oh, and the 4.6 
Have fun picking out your rides, lucky basturdz
Have fun picking out your rides, lucky basturdz
04-10-2010, 04:39 PM
#23
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Iowa
Posts: 29
Redrocker: I hate the red interior with a passion lol. We have this 05 black convertible, black top in the shop now with the red interior and it's just terrible, completely ruined an otherwise great looking car(that and it's a V6 automatic). Everyone I work with thinks it looks horrible. But yea that is the only bad part about a manual, your foot will get tired from going in and out and in and out on the clutch in traffic like that, but where I live I don't have to deal with that much except for the 5 times a year when it's my turn to drive up to the Skins games so it's definitely worth it. I think it'd be worth it even if it was every day though, but that's just me.
Smee: Very nice man, I'm jealous as hell haha, enjoy it. If it was me I know I wouldn't get a bit of sleep waiting for that thing to come I'd be so anxious and excited lol. Can't go wrong with the grabber blue.
Smee: Very nice man, I'm jealous as hell haha, enjoy it. If it was me I know I wouldn't get a bit of sleep waiting for that thing to come I'd be so anxious and excited lol. Can't go wrong with the grabber blue.
04-11-2010, 01:09 AM
#24
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: VA
Posts: 103
I almost bought an 06 black convertible GT with red leather a couple years ago. But I really like the red they're using now a lot better. The Brick Red they're putting in now is a different tone of red...deeper, not as bright red. Because it's deeper and it has the white line going down the center, it looks much nicer than the previous bright "plain" red, IMHO.
04-12-2010, 02:10 PM
#25
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: over yonder
Posts: 1,185
04-12-2010, 04:28 PM
#26
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: VA
Posts: 103
Everybody I know that goes to the track has a manual... And we joke about people with automatics a lot too lol. But I've never been so my bad I guess... I can't think of anyone I've ever known with an automatic though that races it at a track.
04-12-2010, 04:51 PM
#27
Mish-ogynist
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Helena, MT
Posts: 3,780
i love my auto.. very consistent at the track no miss-shifts during street races either.. only downfall is the roll racing, since i dont like to manually shift my auto i always have to wait a 1/2 second for it to downshift.. so i just tell people their car sucks if they cant go from a dig 
I also run like .4 faster than my buddy with a manual, same mods except he doesn't have the udps or cmdps.. or didn't, now he has all those plus Driveshaft..
no miss-shifts during street races either.. only downfall is the roll racing, since i dont like to manually shift my auto i always have to wait a 1/2 second for it to downshift.. so i just tell people their car sucks if they cant go from a dig I also run like .4 faster than my buddy with a manual, same mods except he doesn't have the udps or cmdps.. or didn't, now he has all those plus Driveshaft..
04-15-2010, 05:36 PM
#30
6th Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Montaner
Posts: 6,193
That said I'm more impressed with a well driven manual car vs. a robot driven automatic. The former does take more driver skill to get results.