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Manual Transmissions Are The Best!

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M6 drivers rule
A8 drivers drool


If laserdoc was still here, he'd lock this thread down :p
Oldie but a goody! I def got a laugh out of that. :D. Brought back memory's of the schoolyard.
 


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Coming to your "speed is everything, why not" store near you...
Buy your A8.
Access Enhanced Launch Mode
Enter your tire model, size from menu.
Enter road surface from menu: Street, track, prepped track, etc.
Computer knows temperature, other pertinent ambient conditions.
Now you're set.
Press Execute Button...wheel straight, gas and brake pedals to the floor..light on dash says "ready to go"
Release brake and hold on!
The car does the rest til you release gas.
You, the driver, are simply the on/off switch.
Computer knows best, no skill required...fun!
Hell, a capable computer scientist could probably make this an aftermarket mod.
Why not?
 


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Hell, maybe you could do it with your phone app and watch it from the stands and have a beer!
 


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Don't have a gal at this moment so I have to do sumtin with my hands. Shifter works well. Funny purchasing my vettes I got charged extra for straight shift the H/C got a deduct.
Ya know when I bought my '09 SRT The guy who sold it told me there was a waiting list for the stick. You could not get it in '08 with the original Challenger. Every body wanted The "big bad" 425HP hemi with a stick (Hellcat wasn't out yet). Now the pendulum has swung the other way. Such is life.
 


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Hell, maybe you could do it with your phone app and watch it from the stands and have a beer!
Boy...you really want that A8 don't cha. Me thinks thou doth protest too much! :LOL:
 


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I'm just foolin with the crowd. My wife's HC is an A8 and I like it just fine. But when we go out (as long as the parking situation meets my standards), I pick my M6 every time.
 


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I think it is a maturity factor. Didn't say age.
 


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Hell, maybe you could do it with your phone app and watch it from the stands and have a beer!
Yep. When autonomous cars are the quickest, will we be saying, “Yeah, but A8s are more fun!”
 


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Just to be clear, I do have the A8 in our DSRT, and while it's nice, it still doesn't give me that "Golden Earring - Radar Love" feeling while driving.

My favorite group!
 


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Yep. When autonomous cars are the quickest, will we be saying, “Yeah, but A8s are more fun!”
Yea, early prototypes of someone/something else doin the driving are kinda dull (ie the bus). I'm sure computers will be fastest any point A to B. I'm not sure it will be much more fun tho.
 


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When I got the M6 in my 2012 Yellow Jacket. the main selling point besides just wanting one at the time,was to keep from having the Modulated displacement forced on me with the 392 automatic. The m6 was exempt.
 


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Yea, early prototypes of someone/something else doin the driving are kinda dull (ie the bus). I'm sure computers will be fastest any point A to B. I'm not sure it will be much more fun tho.
More like it was more fun driving yourself. Hope autonomous driving doesn't take self driving away.
 


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LOL...so that's how I got sent up !
It wasn't me. I haven't sent anybody to prison. 😃
 


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Not while was cooking there. Thinking that automatics are the better car if you wear high hills.
 


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Yea, early prototypes of someone/something else doin the driving are kinda dull (ie the bus). I'm sure computers will be fastest any point A to B. I'm not sure it will be much more fun tho.
Bout as much fun as a root canal
 


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It wasn't me. I haven't sent anybody to prison. 😃
It was that scoundrel Lazer Doc...Bull ratted him out in an earlier post...lol
 


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Coming to your "speed is everything, why not" store near you...
Buy your A8.
Access Enhanced Launch Mode
Enter your tire model, size from menu.
Enter road surface from menu: Street, track, prepped track, etc.
Computer knows temperature, other pertinent ambient conditions.
Now you're set.
Press Execute Button...wheel straight, gas and brake pedals to the floor..light on dash says "ready to go"
Release brake and hold on!
The car does the rest til you release gas.
You, the driver, are simply the on/off switch.
Computer knows best, no skill required...fun!
Hell, a capable computer scientist could probably make this an aftermarket mod.
Why not?
Like one of those kiddie rides at the fair...all you do is sit there and smile..
 


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As long as it is big enough,, it could hit any where and they are going down. Back in WW2,, the big one of course. I hve talked to sum friends invited to the party and back then the ASP 45 auto was introduced. The shots were so hot that the bullet it self would penetrate the target and not a stoppage was had. So, they reintroduced the 22 cal to knock em down. What my war buddies told me, so,,, reintroducing a few calibers to the arsenals.
 


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