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Coelacanth wrote:

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote:it's not like I drive to work on the Audubon everyday.

Would you WANT to drive on the "Audubon" every day? Isn't that some wildlife society? (I just love typos that give a whole new meaning to a sentence!)

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote:

Coelacanth wrote:

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote:it's not like I drive to work on the Audubon everyday.

Would you WANT to drive on the "Audubon" every day? Isn't that some wildlife society? (I just love typos that give a whole new meaning to a sentence!)

It's paved with ducks...

Coelacanth wrote:You need to get it out on the strip and do some quarter-mallard time trials.

longboardnj wrote:

Lowgear wrote:I'm not entirely sure what the auto stick is some of these new cars have. Am I close in thinking its a mode you can put the transmission in from full auto that makes it act like a manual valve body?

manual valve body= cool fun trans .. auto stick = a big joke that makes uneducated buyers excited about a auto trans(computer on auto stick limits what you can do unlike a manual valve body).. 6 speed auto is for better mpg not shifting... oh and nice car scr8p glad to see people buying american

Coelacanth wrote:Good points about the auto-stick...does an auto-stick EXIST that really lets you shift in a performance manner like a standard? The computer overrides anything you'd want it to do that's outside of what it considers "safe". My Torrent has that too but I've never even used it. I bought a GTech Performance Meter Pro (link to good review below, NIB on eBay for $55 shipped) to do some 0-60 performance tests after weighing the vehicle & me at a scale. My best average (the manual says to average the top 3 of 5 runs) was 6.92 seconds, the best of that average was 6.88 seconds. The Torrent GXP was rated at having sub-7-second 0-60's so it must've been pretty accurate. Point being, I doubt I could get faster runs fiddling with the auto-stick. I just did a bit of a brakestand to build up the revs and launched.

http://www.mustangworld.com/ourpics/hitech/gtech1.htm

I was actually most surprised that a 2008 vehicle that was lady-driven for 4 years before I bought it was still able to exceed the "rated" performance figures.