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Fastest Auto Starlet/Glanza
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Adam_Glanza
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o dear god help me 
My 0-100 km/h time is about 6.8-7 secs depending on the heat it's bloody quick. My auto is bloody quick don't have to launch it hard to get it off the line have seen auto gt's beat manual ones before too what some people don't understand is a manual glanza with 150 hp is totally different to an auto glanza with 150 hp have been in both and sorry the auto is faster. It's like my dads car he used to own a toyota echo t sport that was manual same engine as the vitz he has now except his vitz is an auto 1500 cc the auto is actually faster than the manual. So many car companies are going auto as they are the way of the future. The new GT-R for example is basically an auto. Thats basically my.2 cents
riko666
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there are facts, and there are opinions....fact is, like for like...actually, I've explained it already, can't be bothered.
But automatics can be made to be faster as it eliminates the human error from the situation. Before you reply with anything, just read what you're saying - you've been in both cars and your IMPRESSION, as in, from the seat of your pants, is that the Automatic SEEMS faster...but do you have any concise evidence of it? Are the 2 cars identically powered/modified? Is the driver of the manual car actually any good at changing gears?? That final point is the one to think about. Alfradio, a guy just turned 65, get's a 14sec dead quarter mile on what's pretty much a Standard (bar a FMIC and perhaps upped boost) 4EFTE installed in a HEAVIER car. His 60ft times of 2sec dead are damn impressive. Evidence he knows how to change gears? His quarter mile time is mentioned above, yet his trapspeed is around 75mph...that's it, 75...
There's no point in asking who's driven a "quick automatic". The answer is there "QUICK automatic"...so ofcourse it's going to be quick!!! What's it going to be compared to? "Oh, I've driven a similar car that was in no way modified the same way, but I presume it had the same power, and driving them back to back I PRESUME the Auto is quicker cause...my butt dyno tells me so!"
Sorry for the rant, but it's such a dumb arguement over which is faster, cause fact of the matter is, you're not comparing like for like. The ONLY car I've ever read about where the Automatic version was quicker, is the 997 Porsche 911 Turbo...why? Well, I doubt anyone can shift quick enough off the line when a 483bhp, twin turbocharged, AWD vehicle launches off the line. Cars like the Bugatti Veyron, R35 Nissan GTR (it's not called a Skyline anymore) have Semi-Automatic transmissions? Simple - it can DEAL with that amount of power.
But automatics can be made to be faster as it eliminates the human error from the situation. Before you reply with anything, just read what you're saying - you've been in both cars and your IMPRESSION, as in, from the seat of your pants, is that the Automatic SEEMS faster...but do you have any concise evidence of it? Are the 2 cars identically powered/modified? Is the driver of the manual car actually any good at changing gears?? That final point is the one to think about. Alfradio, a guy just turned 65, get's a 14sec dead quarter mile on what's pretty much a Standard (bar a FMIC and perhaps upped boost) 4EFTE installed in a HEAVIER car. His 60ft times of 2sec dead are damn impressive. Evidence he knows how to change gears? His quarter mile time is mentioned above, yet his trapspeed is around 75mph...that's it, 75...
There's no point in asking who's driven a "quick automatic". The answer is there "QUICK automatic"...so ofcourse it's going to be quick!!! What's it going to be compared to? "Oh, I've driven a similar car that was in no way modified the same way, but I presume it had the same power, and driving them back to back I PRESUME the Auto is quicker cause...my butt dyno tells me so!"
Sorry for the rant, but it's such a dumb arguement over which is faster, cause fact of the matter is, you're not comparing like for like. The ONLY car I've ever read about where the Automatic version was quicker, is the 997 Porsche 911 Turbo...why? Well, I doubt anyone can shift quick enough off the line when a 483bhp, twin turbocharged, AWD vehicle launches off the line. Cars like the Bugatti Veyron, R35 Nissan GTR (it's not called a Skyline anymore) have Semi-Automatic transmissions? Simple - it can DEAL with that amount of power.
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Well Alf would be a quarter mile veteran has tonnes of experience at the quarter mile drags and knows how to shift could probably show up alot of the younger guys out there 75 mph is quite impressive imho saw cars at the quarter mile doing slower times than that and some were rotors that were modified
gv1.3
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I think the point he was making was that end speed is not all it appears so im not sure why you consider 75mph to be impressive...
Adam_Glanza
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this is getting very stupid.
nobody every said autos are SLOW
weve just been saying that a 150bhp automatic glanza isnt a rocket.
i personally cant see how if you had a standard automatic glanza and a standard manual glanza, aslong as there was a decent driver in the manual that it would loose?
ok porsches etc are just a different league. the new r35 costs wat 60,000 brand new? and has a gearbox that is state of the art.
im not dismissing your auto is a nippy little car im sure it is, but for wat your making out that it beats 3 litre's etc i just cant see that lol
nobody every said autos are SLOW
weve just been saying that a 150bhp automatic glanza isnt a rocket.
i personally cant see how if you had a standard automatic glanza and a standard manual glanza, aslong as there was a decent driver in the manual that it would loose?
ok porsches etc are just a different league. the new r35 costs wat 60,000 brand new? and has a gearbox that is state of the art.
im not dismissing your auto is a nippy little car im sure it is, but for wat your making out that it beats 3 litre's etc i just cant see that lol
Adam_Glanza
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yeah stop start driving im sure there great,
but thats wat there designed for to make city driving easy.
there not aimed at the driving inthusiast who wants to be flat out etc
but thats wat there designed for to make city driving easy.
there not aimed at the driving inthusiast who wants to be flat out etc
riko666
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Hey Dan, just checked, it's actually 78.37mph! That's some good shifting skills then
Adam_Glanza
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im saying on paper a car that has the same power, but the auto is a heavier car,
how will the auto win if the manual driver isnt a complete spastic?
how will the auto win if the manual driver isnt a complete spastic?
Adam_Glanza
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lol i dont know how this is all coming about neway. i never said autos were shit cars?
this has come around from 150bhp in a auto having enough to torque to throw you back in the seat etc.
it shud just be locked
this has come around from 150bhp in a auto having enough to torque to throw you back in the seat etc.
it shud just be locked
riko666
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it's fun to see the unsubstantiated claims of people though..."it's faster cause I've been in both cars that weren't modified the same, but my butt-dyno said I was pushed into the seat more in the Auto car..."
That being said, the Auto's only have 4 ratios, so they would feel "leggier" so to say
That being said, the Auto's only have 4 ratios, so they would feel "leggier" so to say
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