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Old 05-24-2018, 03:22 PM   #23
Norm Peterson
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Originally Posted by Bigdog9586 View Post
Then why are the automatic. SS’s faster than the manual and have been for a couple years?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=66kcZYTncMg
For a number of reasons, and this is nothing new. I could have told you to expect it to work out that way - AT cars being faster than their MT counterparts . . . oh, about 50 years ago.

Disappointment with one or more of the ways an AT feels is not as directly related to the performance as you'd like to think it might be. It's also why the cars in my sig have this one thing in common, the various disappointments meaning more to me as 'negatives' than the measured performance does as a positive. But that hasn't kept me from putting a little time into trying to understand automatics or the associated subjective matters.


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