i liked that poster in the beggining but noticed that in the max permissable speed it shows 4th gear and no 5th for the manual, and only 3rd for auto what gives... go ahead take a look

 

If you already have an Audi to have fun with, I would go for the Automatic. It feels peppy enough to me, and I've never had trouble merging with or passing traffic. Plus it's a great cruiser.

 

Max speed for 5th (Manual) and 4th (Auto) is the car's max speed. First number at the top.

RichC

 

hmm ok makes sense i guess...

 

My Xa has the 5spd..... it is doing 4000 rpm @80 ! Its got ***** for a 1.5 .......but my landlord likes my xa so much he just got a '06 ...... With an auto hes cruising nicely down the highway WITH A VERY NOTICEABLE 1000 rpm less !

BUT I SMOKED HIM TWICE ALREADY.

both are window stickers say 38 highway.

get the auto

 

depends what u like!

 

I got the auto, I would get the auto again if I had the choice. It goes great gettin on the freeway plenty of get up and go

 

Yeeeaaahhhhhh...night & day...in Alaska during a solstice


Truth be told, the automatics in these cars are amazingly refined & efficient...some reviewers saw no difference in feel between the Scion & Lexus lines.

Besides, in what alternate reality is a 100hp car quick, EVEN with a stick?


All this said, the choice should have NOTHING to do with performance. Do you want to shift yourself? Buy a manual. NO? Buy an automatic.

That's really about as far as it goes...

 

ha ha ha . well while i've driven them back to back it's night and day. i wouldnt buy these cars in auto if it would save my life.

100hp quick? yeah. maybe youve been asleep to the import world for the last 10 or so years.

 

Think about what you just said...no, you're not done. Walk away from the computer and REEALLLYY think...


Ok, now do you understand just how dumb it sounds?


A 100hp car will NEVER be fast...unless you make it weigh 300 pounds. Guess what...you just turned it into a mortorcycle.

The import scene for the last 10 years has not made 100hp cars quick...it's taken 100hp cars AND ADDED HORSEPOWER to make them quicker. Genius.

 

that's what i'm talking about.

with just boring biolt on's i'm running faster than a 15.9

i ran 15.9 before i added the lightweight pulley , damper , and irids.

 

Wow. I give up.


And just so you know, 15.9 is slightly better than walking.

THESE CARS WEREN'T MEANT TO BE FAST. There's a headline for ya.

 

alright bro. just wait till the motorswap is done.

I dont come and ____ in your cheerios so don't ____ in mine. as well as many others. everyone wants a fast car.

most will do things like bolt ons. I will go to the end of the world to make the car i love into what i want. aka fast.

 

also. i know about fast 1/4 mile times. i've driven more than a few fast cars. I can't pay the insurance on em tho. so....

hell even my beater supra ran 14.8. not bad for a n/a supra. fastest n/a 3rd gen supra.

 

Your point? Civic hatchbacks weren't meant to be fast, but people spend the money for k20a, h22, so on so forth swaps making them extremely fast, and reliable. Did you have a point or are you just putting down 50% of the tuners out there? The fun, to me about tuning a car is watching it grow. Starting with a slow car and building it to perform is fun, while keeping it reliable because i'd rather build a track/street car vs. a strictly track or show.

 

ok this thread is dead

 

How did we end up talking about Civcs? Who cares? This is a thread about trannies in the Box.

 

If you'd read the entire exchange between hotbox & me you'd see that my point is not to "put down 50% of tuners"...mine was a futile attempt to explain that a car with 100hp ISN'T FAST (unless you drop it from a plane at 30,000 feet), so to base a transmission choice on said car's performance is really kind of stupid.

Hotbox started trying to convince me that 100hp cars were fast because of the recent import scene...I then tried to explain that a 100hp car is only MADE FAST by increasing the horsepower SINGNIFICANTLY, thereby eliminating it from the 100hp category he was trying to defend. He just didn't get it. Do you?

 

I understand your point. Here's a quote from my post on page 1:

 

EXACTLY.