06-01-2012, 10:54 AM
My Calibra has a slushbox 
Basically, you put your foot on the brake, put it in D and it starts to pull at the brakes. Take your foot off and it creeps forward, touch the accelerator and it just moves off, and changes gear as the revs rise. If you start to slow down it drops back down the gears, and you can just stop without it stalling. If you put your foot down harder it'll hold lower gears longer and change faster, and if you floor it or put it in "Sport mode" it'll hold gears to the redline. Also, if your just driving along and you floor it, it kicks down a couple of gears to give you power for fast acceleration or overtaking
Do I like it? Yes and no. If I was ONLY driving to work and back (4 mile commute, almost all of it sat in traffic) I'd have an auto every time, but on a nice road it's gash, you know how on a country road you drop a cog before a corner, hold that gear through the corner and then floor it after the apex? Can't do that in an auto, it'll change up halfway round the bend, so you come out of the bend, floor it and you sit there waiting for it to kick down
I wanted to try an auto, which is why I got one in a car that was always gonna be temporary, and Im going back to a manual next. You should also bear in mind, auto boxes are very complex if they go wrong and make fuel economy about 20% worse, my 2.0 16 valve Calibra struggles to do 20 mpg in traffic...
Basically, you put your foot on the brake, put it in D and it starts to pull at the brakes. Take your foot off and it creeps forward, touch the accelerator and it just moves off, and changes gear as the revs rise. If you start to slow down it drops back down the gears, and you can just stop without it stalling. If you put your foot down harder it'll hold lower gears longer and change faster, and if you floor it or put it in "Sport mode" it'll hold gears to the redline. Also, if your just driving along and you floor it, it kicks down a couple of gears to give you power for fast acceleration or overtaking
Do I like it? Yes and no. If I was ONLY driving to work and back (4 mile commute, almost all of it sat in traffic) I'd have an auto every time, but on a nice road it's gash, you know how on a country road you drop a cog before a corner, hold that gear through the corner and then floor it after the apex? Can't do that in an auto, it'll change up halfway round the bend, so you come out of the bend, floor it and you sit there waiting for it to kick down
I wanted to try an auto, which is why I got one in a car that was always gonna be temporary, and Im going back to a manual next. You should also bear in mind, auto boxes are very complex if they go wrong and make fuel economy about 20% worse, my 2.0 16 valve Calibra struggles to do 20 mpg in traffic...
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