POLL: Does your Aveo have an automatic or manual transmission?

[Daox]

Auto or manual trans? And why did you choose it?

Have your previous cars had manuals or autos?

[MetroMPG]

Good poll question! OK, my vote doesn't count (pre-Aveo)...

But I voted anyway. I always pick manual transmission when I have the choice. I've had maybe 25 or 30 cars, and only 2 have been automatics, one being my first car (land yacht 1964 Pontiac Catalina 389 V8 ), the 2nd didn't have a manual option.

[PoisonIvy]

Voted Auto since my current 2010 is, but my previous 2004 was manual. Driving a stick shift is definitely a dying art in North America.

[MetroMPG]

Yeah, only something like 6 or 7% of new cars in the U.S. are manuals now.

[xintersecty]

I have owned four cars in my life, all manuals. The next one I am getting is going to be an automatic for a boat towing SUV. Been looking for four wheel drive. An automatic makes sense there. I am inline for an Elio Elio Motors | The next big thing in transportation! and I plan to get the manual there too.

[DarrylYoder]

I absolutely love manual, i owned one vehicle that was auto and that got swapped to a manual.

[MetroMPG]

I absolutely love manual, i owned one vehicle that was auto and that got swapped to a manual.

You mean you actually swapped the transmission? What kind of car was that?

I am inline for an Elio

That's a cool machine. I hope it comes to fruition.

[DarrylYoder]

You mean you actually swapped the transmission? What kind of car was that?

It was a 93 dodge caravan i swapped the factory motor for an engine trans and drivetrain from a 3000gt VR-4.

[petrified.rabbit]

It was a 93 dodge caravan i swapped the factory motor for an engine trans and drivetrain from a 3000gt VR-4.

I have seen that done with the SRT... I did a auto to manual swap in a few VWs, I think it could be done fairly easily in an Aveo. But you would need enough parts to have to buy a donor car. And my refusal to do some of the "hacks" that people do to make auto to manual swaps work with less effort (like leave the car thinking it is in neutral and put the neutral safety switch on the clutch pedal, instead of wiring up the manual harness).

[MetroMPG]

It was a 93 dodge caravan i swapped the factory motor for an engine trans and drivetrain from a 3000gt VR-4.

:O

OK, you have to post a lounge thread about this! Even if you have a build thread somewhere else, post a pic and a summary with link.