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Cyborg 2-A ✅
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Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:42:09 -0400
Last time i was in Brazil, which was a few years ago, there were no automatic trannies. Has that changed?
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Giac El Vecio
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:15:37 -0400
With money you can have this and others... The first time that I saw this here was maybe 5 years ago
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Giac El Vecio
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:16:45 -0400
... But a lot of people still have/use the old one
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Alexandre Hannud Abdo
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:29:46 -0400
My dad used to be an early enthusiast of automatic transmission in Brazil, and in the early 90's he drove an Opel Ascona* that was already automatic. It was an optional feature, and not cheap. But today we see more and more adoption of automatic.
* sold in Brazil as 'Chevrolet Monza' ... no comments.
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Alexandre Hannud Abdo
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:35:14 -0400
last edited: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:35:41 -0400
I think their rising popularity in Brazil is associated with traffic jams in big cities. In the case of my father he was impressed by the technology involved, and I think it helped with his back pain. In any case it is much more comfortable to be in a traffic jam with an automatic transmission. I assume it might also save you some fuel by optimizing gear shifts.
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Cyborg 2-A ✅
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:49:40 -0400
I like driving cars and trucks with manual transmissions, but I've found as I get older I prefer big cars with automatic transmissions.
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Marshall Sutherland
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:39:16 -0400
I've had junkers with autos that I drove like manuals because I needed to keep the RPMs up to keep it running.
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Cyborg 2-A ✅
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:34:55 -0400
my car was doing that until i fixed some things. if the RPMS dropped below 900 it would shut down.
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André
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:53:36 -0400
Yes, @
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- there have been cars with automatic transmission in Brazil for some years now. But I cannot say in which year they started to be sold.
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A.min
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 02:06:31 -0400
last edited: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 02:07:39 -0400
My current daily driver is a 2009, GDI-type turbo with a 6-speed, full manual transmission. I don't churn cars often and am still it hoping it might be the last ICE I own. When I bought it, I figured I'd like to go out the way I came in. Modern autos are fine, of course. Hardly anyone drives a manual here and there's no point in learning these days, but it's still a totally different paradigm and I love manuals, even if they're something of a fetish.
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