We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.
Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.
Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.
To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home
Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
These 62 comments are related to the topic:
Bl**dy Useless Automatic cars - don't buy one
Bl**dy Useless Automatic cars - don't buy one
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 62
|
By:
Are we on the run-up to CHRIST MASS?
|
|
By:
 |
|
By:
that's going back a bit
|
|
By:
Foinavon 30 Sep 14 10:08
The Renault 4L had a gear stick like that operating a 3 speed box linked to a little 850 cc engine from the Dauphine.(This was the deluxe version). Trying to locate a gear was like poking a coal fire wearing a blindfold. That may well have been it Foinavon. It wasn't very powerful or fast. |
|
By:
It was my first car (I was living in France) so didn't realise how bad it was to drive.
Had it for several years and drove thousands of miles often loaded up to the gunwales. On the plus side it was very reliable and didn't rust through. |
|
By:
I tried to make a car out of hay but couldn't get the gearbox right. I think I was clutching at straws.
|
|
By:
I had a kit car called a Ford Pubic.
It was made from old Corsairs. |
|
By:
Rolls Canardli a shocking omission on this thread.
|
|
By:
Big cars just don't suit a manual gearbox.
Jags, Mercs, Beemers, Aston Martin etc would be rubbish with one. On the day that my mum passed away, I was heading for Leeds on the 621, to sort the death certificate, and the auto box gave up, without any previous suggestion that it was on the way out. This was an Audi GT and the only luck I had was that the dealership was a five minute walk away. Had it recovered and left it with them. The quote for repair/renew was £1.780.00.....ouch! Borrowed my sisters car to get home, and spoke to my Audi/VW mechanic and he was quoted £800.00 by his specialists. Still a wedge though, but the insult was that they were the main dealer's repairers, so they were going to stuff me for £980.00. Had auto on my "Cougar" which only had four ratios, but have it now on my TT, with DSG and 6 ratios which is brilliant. |
|
By:
Hmmm. Of course, the gearbox and especially the number of gears are simply to compensate for the inadequacies of the internal combustion engine. One could well say that the more gears means the more useless!
 |
|
By:
trouble with an auto is if you have a stroke, fit or heart attack at the wheel, you continue accelerating to a ton plus before hitting a brick wall on the bend ..and thats not good for you or the car
|
|
By:
this fred has officially pissed me off
walofs coffin dodgers central Autos are the way forward , reliable as hell ,OP joke did skim right over my head ,whatever turns you on . get back to your sudukas . |
|
By:
My coffin dodging Mk2 manual Jaguar ate any automatic on the road in its time, unless the E-Type was auto.
|
|
By:
The automatic gearbox does drain a little bit more of the engine's power than a manual box does. But of course, so does power steering and climate control. Consequently, the manual version of a car should be a little bit quicker than the auto.../everything else being equal.
|
|
By:
I don't have the air-con on in my car.
Getting out of a cool car on a hot day is like getting out of a fridge in the desert. |
|
By:
i_agree_with_nick • September 29, 2014 3:15 PM BST
An ex of mine had a problem with some knickers she bought from C&A My friend had the same problem too. Couldn't tell the front from the back. |
|
By:
TAXI!!!
|
|
By:
Has someone woke Kenny up?
 |
|
By:
I'd say they haven't.
|
|
By:
I've just wasted several dozen seconds reading this thread.
A better combination in one place, of: No sense of humour, A wasted sense of humour, Worse "jokes" than '70's Saturday evening TV, So many people missing the point/joke - and it isn't all deliberate, would be hard to find. |
|
By:
An excellent summary Studyform.
|
|
By:
I'm not sure which 3 of the 4 refer to me
|
