Oh. A young'un.
Oh. A young'un.
My wife has a 2014 Forester (replacing the 1999 Forester) that I drive when we go to Costco or the plant nursery. I never notice the shifter. My own car is an Infiniti M and I don't notice the shifting in it, either. My wife has never learned to drive anything but an automatic and I switched to automatic when I replaced my 240Z with a 1985 Honda Prelude 2.0 Si. I was only 50 years old but already had some knee problems.
At my age, I don't tend to much drag racing, even in my own car. (Which is *considerably* sportier and faster than the Forester! )
Hey! Manual chokes and and a hole in the front bumper to insert the crank handle are fond souvenirs of my wasted youth! So are Weber carburettors. Many a sunny afternoon in the back yard disassembling, cleaning and reassembling them. An early MGA of mine had, if I recollect, SU carbs. Seems I could never quite get them synchronized, for some reason. (Probably ineptitude. )
Remembering the crank kicking back and damn near breaking my wrist is a not so ford memory, I must admit.
And aren't we a bunch of old farts! (Septuagenarian myself, now.)
Didn't you have a Uni-Syn for synching the carbs? I still have mine.
Yes we are and in a year and a half, I'll be an octogenarian.
My wife told me yesterday that her brother who just turned 85 has trouble driving his old Fiero stick shift because it hurts his knees.
As for CVT I have been driving my wife's automatic Forester this week as mine was in the shop. It did feel different at first going back to my Forester with a CVT but now it feels normal.
My nephews body shop did a great job with dent in my fender and even took out a lot of scratches on other parts. Looks like a new car. We talked about Subaru Eyesight system and he says he has repaired Subaru's that have it. Awful lot of electronics making cars more expensive to repair if damaged.
Oh, that's too bad, I really like my H6, despite the terrible gas mileage. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the power vs. consumption equation on the new twin-turbo H4. If they set the turbo activation speed too high, then it'll get better consumption, but at the expense of low-rpm power.
Really, the best possible outcome is if they come up with an electric motor eventually, there's nothing like an electric for low-RPM grunt, not even a diesel.
Yousuf Khan
Well yeah, obviously, but what about everyday stoplight dragging?
Yeah, I was wondering about whether he tried the paddle-shifters either?
Yes, sometimes it's just an issue with power-to-weight, but not always. Sometimes it's just an issue with getting traction. And Subies have a lot of traction available, if anything. I guess the VW is an AWD car too, but I think it's just a part-time AWD whereas the Subies are full-time, there should be a few milliseconds saved there.
I think a standard auto Subie would've beaten the VW. I think the issue here is with CVT. Subie probably avoids putting too much stress on the CVT at the start, and therefore it probably starts at a very high gearing ratio. Toyota recently paired a two-speed manual-style transmission in front of their CVT to reduce stresses on the CVT belt, which they call Direct-Shift CVT. This allows their CVT range to stay relatively high, while the manual takes the brunt of the low-RPM stresses. Once the CVT is in its optimal range, then the "manual" is shifted to its higher mode. I say "manual" in quotes, because it's probably a computer-shifted manual, just using the simple manual transmission gearing system to aid the CVT.
Direct Shift-CVT: A New Type of Continuously Variable Transmission | TOYOTA Global Newsroom
Teslas are beating the Veyron, at around 2.1 seconds to 60 mph, and they weigh much more than the Veyron. It's torque and not so much horsepower that's important to the 0-60's.
Yousuf Khan
I've had knee and back problems since my 20's.
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