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Originally Posted by CyberWasp
Manual all the way.
I actually like the deceleration characteristics of being able to go down through the gears for corners, roundabouts and braking ect.
Brake pads and rotors last heaps longer and you get less brake dust to clean off the wheels.
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Yes manual for me. There is no extra cost for say a 60000 automatic service. No risk of the power shift/dsg/dual clutch/cvt auto blowing up at 115000 say with a 4 k cost.
My brakes never need changing till 150000 as I do mainly freeway kms and use the gearbox for braking in many circumstances say exiting the freeway on a horseshoe curve. In an auto you have to use the brakes.
Ditto for a winding road. With a manual box the driver controls the car.
With an auto the car controls the driver.
But driving as as a commercial driver auto thanks. The manual box is pretty fatiguing in a 12 hour metro driving shift.
Anyone from Ford reading. Improve your sales on S A Focus base models and Acive bring in a manual.