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Re: Manual transmissions V70-XC70 2001

posted by  someone claiming to be Nathaniel Beck on  Thu Oct 26 06:51 CST 2000 [RELATED]

The Geartronic on my wife's Acura TL was her concession to me! But both of us have come to love it. Shift is very quick, so when you are in traffic and want a quick getaway, or want to slow down without braking, seems to work really quite well. Only two weeks on the V70 Geartronic, but again seems to work quite nicely. So maybe it does take getting used to. (Having gotten a bit more used to the adaptive automatic side, I am not sure that one needs to move to manual and shift down to get a quick lane change at reasonable freeway speed, but the ability to avoid riding the brake on the freeway is nice.)Was driving a rental five speed manual before picking up the V70, and do not regret the decision to go auto on the T5. Given the adaptive auto, a harder choice would be between manual only and auto only. But auto plus geartronic seems like a clear winner to me (given that 90%+ of my driving is S.Cal. freeways)

neal





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