[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by SUB-FT86

Matador thinks he is a know it all. Do me a favor dude and go kill yourself. I had a feeling someone would come with a ignorant post. If you cant respect my opinion you can do what I said earlier.

Well in his defense some of your points were wrong. Manuals are easier to fix and cheap to maintain. I get more mileage out of a clutch than I've ever gotten out of any of my automatics (granted I've only owned two automatics long enough for them to fail).

100k+ street (and some track) miles and 60 hours of wheel to wheel racing on the clutch I just replaced. I can't complain about that.

I never had jerky shifts or starts with my S2K unless I messed up. Same with my other cars (Hondas and non-Hondas).

Internal trans wear (synchros) can happen all the time but most cars hit the junkyard before synchros are replaced, unless it's a design flaw issue, a rough driving owner (or abusive owner), etc.

Other items wear on both (seals, etc). Autos have their own issues with wear also.

Clutch wear, well sure it eventually wears down. They aren't that expensive to replace when you look at the mileage a responisble owner will get out of a clutch.. the price per mile isn't very high.

What you lose with the auto in driver involvement/engagement and fun far outweigh the cost of occasional clutch repairs.. and occasional clutch repairs are far less expensive than having an auto rebuilt (2k for my Toyota Cressida's back in the day, and it never was right after Toyota rebuilt it, they ended up rebuilding it 2 more times and it still had issues - not toyota's fault, just the mechs at the local dealer I'm sure).

Plus I can easily replace a clutch and rebuild a manual trans, autos are black magic that I would never want to work on :P