re manual shift bigots in article apr ericsson se etxmst sta ericsson se writes but why not turn the question around why are automatics so common in the us because some people like them and some people actually need them my guess is that when they tried to couple manuals to the torque rich v s in the sixties the clutches turned out as real killers you had to use both feet to depress and that this has just lived on yeah right real muscle cars had a manual transmission and their clutches aren t that heavy shelby american used plenty of high powered high torque engines and carroll only put autos in his cars because people wanted them blasphemers heretics burn them burn them for defiling a shelby with an auto real cobras and they were the ultimate sports car at the time had big block fords which turned out prodigious amounts of power and torque and none of them had automatics and also an automatic with a v engine can be real fun to drive yeah if you call a gear shift in the middle of a curve fun i personally would love to have a galaxie liter coupe with a fire breathing and four onna floor to go along side my galaxie pillarless hardtop with a fire breathing with three onna tree i love the sound of dual exhaust in the morning there s no comparison between a real american muscle car and a car with a big engine and an automatic imho james james p callison microcomputer coordinator u of oklahoma law center callison uokmax ecn uoknor edu callison aardvark ucs uoknor edu disclaimer i m not an engineer but i play one at work the forecast calls for thunder t bird sc it s a hell of a thing killing a man you take away all he has and all he s ever gonna have will munny unforgiven
