On 6/12/2014 11:47 AM, sf wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:10:50 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> Personally, I don't want anything exciting happening when I'm in a car.
>> Boring is just alright with me.
>
> Our car is one of those automatics that you can shift if you want to.
> Hubby loves shifting, I hate listening to the motor make those noises.
>

I can do that on my Passat automatic. Mostly I just shift so I can get
up to high gear as soon as possible. I think I can get better gas
mileage than in the automatic mode. It's kind of a lot of work just to
squeeze one or two miles out of a gallon of gas. I would sometimes do
that with my Sonata when I wanted to impress the passenger. The Sonata
had an engine with a lot of grunt. My Passat has an engine that's kind
of wheezy so you can forget about trying to impress.