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Old 02-01-2018, 07:28 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by extrashaky View Post
The traffic strategy is similar. But with a manual, you're always either driving the car or resting. With an automatic in heavy traffic, the car is driving you, and you end up using the brake to hold it back from doing what it really wants to do. To me, working against the car to constantly hold it back is a lot more tedious than working with the car.
Exactly what ATs are you driving that are fighting you and trying to surge ahead? All the ones I have driven have just needed slight pressure on the brake to hold at a stop. Many need some gas to get them moving at all. I have never once felt I was fighting the car to hold it back.
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