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Not for your ordinary city dwellers, but a manual transmission is nicer if you have to drive in adverse conditions (snow, ice) or tow a trailer in hilly areas,
by exDM69 10y ago
Not for your ordinary city dwellers, but a manual transmission is nicer if you have to drive in adverse conditions (snow, ice) or tow a trailer in hilly areas, etc.
And it's just more fun to drive when you have complete control of torque going to the wheels under your right foot :)
- varjag 10y agoI drive an EV now (after years of driving stick). No petrol car comes close in torque control, and it's just two pedals :)
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoMy personal theory about the EV advantage in acceleration/torque control is that it's not really that much better than similar class petrol cars, but that when the car is completely silent, people don't have the same aversion to flooring the pedal. So it's effectively better. I've raced my brother-in-law out of red lights a few times, him in a Nissan Leaf, me in a Peugeot 307 with a 1.6 110 hp petrol engine. I can keep up, but I have to stay above 3000 RPM throughout all gear changes, so it's really loud. Most people never drive a petrol car like that, you sound like an idiot boy racer.