Automatic cars

[Ed Doe]

As Liam said, its not a bad thing if you're just motorway-munching. Real easy to drive; you can just switch off really.

To add to Liams description, I found that at some speeds the one I drove couldn't fecking decide what cog to take and kept swapping up and down. I also found when you give it the means and then let off slowly, it lurches as it changes up, and you look like a shit driver. Also I've always wanted to know how responsive kick-down is. so I took my foot off the throttle, and then PLANTED it. It actually took about 2secs to engage a gear.

Imagine that then, steaming into a bend on a country lane, hard onto the brakes (autobox natually puts you in neutral, further altering the balance of the car :S ), then the back steps out and you need to catch it, so stamp on the throttle......and wait.......... back-end of the car swaps ends with front-end...........aaaand autobox engages the gear. FAIL!

So in the short period I drove the thing (incidentally this was my bosses truck LOL) I have confirmed that I will never own an auto. Ever.