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Originally Posted by jeebus
...And yes, ABS does take away a little bit of the driving experience and feel, but the benefits outweigh the cons in almost all cases. I have raced non-ABS vehicles and my brain just cannot process fast enough to pump to avoid lockup in all situations. My brain can, however, process fast enough to shift. So I wouldn't really say this comparison is valid.
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Everyone is definitely wired differently. Up until recently I'd never owned a car with ABS, and I've never had a situation where ABS has kicked in. I guess I've learnt to modulate breaking very well because I was taught never to rely on it. For the same reason I think I've learnt to steer well and concentrate on steering, accelerating and braking because there haven't been other distractions.
I must say that if I was a confident manual driver, I would buy a manual but no amount of trying and peer pressure has helped. It's not that I can't 'drive' reasonably well, I've just never managed to perfect the coordination of driving manual and it's one less stress I could do without when I just want to enjoy the car. Shock horror, I even used to track automatics to the confusion and disappointment of others, but each to his or her own. I plan to get out again in my automatic BRZ...when it arrives this time next year...
I must say the BRZ I drove had an auto trans like I'd never experienced before. Every other automatic I've driven with manual mode has had far too much computer intervention. You'd attempt to shift in other automatics and there'd be the inevitable lag while it decided if it wanted to or not. In the end you'd never use the manual mode because the car had a mind of it's own and there was no point. I absolutely adored the fact that the trans in the BRZ would just do what you told it to, regardless of whether it didn't agree with the gear you wanted to downshift to for the speed you were doing, it would just do it because you asked it to. It allowed me to accidentally hit 6,800rpm on a downshift to second because well...I wasn't paying attention to speed I was doing and wasn't familiar with the car. I also realised then it had stored peak revs for the trip. Took it back to the dealer after the test drive and pretended nothing happened hehe
I like that, the car does what you ask of it and doesn't think about. I think I might regularly use the paddle shifters because the car made it fun to use.