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09-14-2013, 11:14 PM | #1 |
Mini Pearl
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test drive - comparing automatic L to manual SE
Today, I finally got to test drive a Yaris L automatic today. My car (an SE manual) is somewhere post-port-of-entry and the dealer. It will go (or has gone) to Denver via rail, then another 5-6 hours by truck to my dealer. Guessing our 100 year flood will delay the process. I like ultra rural compared to most here - and very far from the port. My dealer is great, but the tracking computer has been down for several days. Arrival is anyone's guess.
My question is on how to compare the test drive of the L automatic to my SE manual. More pep, yes. Other differences? I liked the drive today! Trying to be patient, as Denver is flooding again tonight. |
09-15-2013, 08:32 AM | #2 |
25, 550 MILES!
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Maybe someone who has driven both will chime in - I have a 2013 L Auto - Love the way it drives & shifts & I'm only at the gas station for gas every 2-3 weeks!
Please be safe - the flooding the news channels are showing is terrible. Please Be Safe |
09-15-2013, 11:22 AM | #3 |
Mini Pearl
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Thanks Jay! I'm across the continental divide, though it's rainey here, we have different geography. That said, the hardest hit area is a place where I lived a good deal of my life. My heart is heavy for those I know there. The Yaris is something positive to focus on.
I am interested in hearing from anyone who has driven both. I enjoyed the drive. |
09-15-2013, 05:17 PM | #4 |
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I had the opportunity to drive an AT as a rental once while on business. I was very pleased with how smooth it was and how it didn't seem to suffer from any loss of pep/power compared to the manual.
That being said... Manual = More fun to drive! P.S. Greetings from a fellow Colorado resident |
09-15-2013, 06:00 PM | #5 |
Mini Pearl
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Hi Altitude - Hope you are staying dry. I only drive manuals but was also favorably impressed. Thanks. I think on ice and passes, the manual will be better, too.
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09-17-2013, 01:33 PM | #6 |
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. In my perfect world the standard Prius and the Prius V would both get the MPG the standard Prius does, and both (mechanically) would be designed like some Honda hybrids (I think the CR-Z is the only one left for the US market) to allow the customer to choose a manual transmission. One of my relatives in California has (since new) a 2005 manual transmission Hybrid (from the factory) Honda Civic sedan (the last year that transmission was available on that car). It would be very difficult to get him to give up that car.
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09-17-2013, 01:55 PM | #7 |
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No doubt. My dealer says people can't drive them anymore. Maybe obesity would be less if we all drove a stick. Seriously, on passes in the winter w a smaller car, makes a huge difference. The car sounds very cool.
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09-17-2013, 03:21 PM | #8 | ||
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SMH, sad commentary.
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09-17-2013, 03:59 PM | #9 | |
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Edited to add: I was curious...so when I got home from work I got out a tape measure, measured my upper thighs, and my left leg is 1-1/2" smaller. It must be from pushing in the clutch. Last edited by DebbyM46227; 09-17-2013 at 05:29 PM. |
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09-17-2013, 06:19 PM | #10 |
Mini Pearl
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Oh the weight loss - I guess it depends of repetitions. Sprained my knee badly once. Had to rent an automatic for a month! When I first started driving the clutch again, it felt like bench pressing a lot of weight. As for walking, yes, agree. I do that the 3 days/ wk that I don't have a 120 mile round trip. I get the best mileage w tennis shoes and no waiting 5 weeks for them to get here from LA! However, a lot of local drivers seem to not understand pedestrian laws. I pay attention! I don't have 9 air bags.
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09-17-2013, 06:49 PM | #11 | |
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09-17-2013, 07:42 PM | #12 |
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I did sort of mean that. And, yea, it is easier, but I walk all winter. Now there is am interesting thesis in wellbeing - is choice of transmission positively correlated with physical activity level? I like it.
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09-17-2013, 09:18 PM | #13 | |
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Many of the people in our town who weren't performance car enthusiasts, were on the other side of the spectrum.....driving big 'land yachts', floaty Lincolns, Cadillacs, and other similar cars that had power everything. My friend's next door neighbor was an Orthodontist who was an avid tennis player and drove a (faster than his brother's) 911 and bought his wife a BMW Alpina sedan. My friend looked at the landscape as black and white (metaphorically) -- that adults who owned cars like his neighbor's cars were in shape and the people who drove Lincolns, Cadillacs, and similar cars were not in shape...and that people were one or the other. I must admit, observation alone showed that there was more than a casual amount of truth to this (of course, mere memory is anecdotal ). The only exception to this I can think of was my next door neighbor (he was a kind of pudgy Pharmacist who had a pristine 1963 Split Window Corvette Stingray Coupe). Whether our town was similar to others in this respect is anyone's guess. My friend would sometimes refer to the Lincolns and Cadillacs as 'pimpmobiles' (he was joking -- most owners = doctors, business owners, etc.). |
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09-17-2013, 10:03 PM | #14 |
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That's interesting. I wonder which comes first, too. Some cars would be less comfortable for different body builds. There certainly is/was a culture of the rich not having to walk as much. I walk to work or around town, and folks stop to offer me a ride as if I'm not making a choice. They almost look hurt when I decline. I love your description of your home town! MY other Yaris is a Nike.
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09-17-2013, 11:06 PM | #16 |
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09-18-2013, 01:02 PM | #17 |
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09-18-2013, 10:23 PM | #18 |
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I like my Automatic LE. Since I do a lot of physical work, it's nice get in the car and go!!
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