Comment Re:Telemarketer solution (Score 1) 454
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You might enjoy driving or getting better performance or whatever. Lots of other people prefer not to have to push the clutch in and out constantly for the hour of stop-and-go bumper to bumper commuting that do each day (and don't try telling them to just stay in second, that's just more details they don't care about...)
Agreed, my last car had a manual transmission, and was fantastic taking for a nice Sunday drive round some of the country road where I live (making sure I can stop in the distance I an see, etc. etc. etc.) But I got an auto next, I just thought its a bit dumb to choose a transmission, suspension and the rest based on 5% of my driving. Sure I have lost the fun when I want it, some handling compared to picking up an equivalent sport model and the performance/mpg loss of an auto, but it works for the 95% of the time I just need to get from A to B.
This might disqualify my from being a petrol head, but I do plan to buy an Alfa at some point, also once I have a house with a garage I will be getting a kit car to build and have fun in. Yes, there is a long list of motoring ambitions waiting on having bought/paid for the actual important things in life