This is for all you guys and gals who have the Auto/Manual option.....What mode do u use??? ......

I had the A/M in my 6i...I pretty much used the auto mode all of the time, after I played around with the M mode for a little bit.

My parents used to have an Audi Allroad with auto/manual. I always found the it was faster in auto than in manual.

I don't have an auto/manual mode thing obviously, but i had a rental 6i with it, and if yours in your CX is anything like the one in 6i, i would stick to the auto to avoid frustration I hated the "manual" mode in that car. I would have to shift like 200-300 rpm's before the intended shift point to hit my mark. It was slow unresponsive and all around annoying.

Leave it in auto. That's what I do with mine unless I need to keep it in a certain gear for something.

In the CX the auto seems to shift wayyyyyy too early........In my 3 it was way different......and it was like the transmission would learn the driving habits in manual then work better in auto mode.....Just my observation.....

i've never had the opportunity to own a car with the manumatic shifting.

In the CX I would drive in auto almost all the time, unless I was in the mountains because I agree with you.. In auto mode it does shift way way way to soon. But I found that in the manual mode it goes through gas faster.. unless I was doing something else wrong.

IMHO Manual mod sucks and is a waste. I don't see what it benefits. Just makes you think your driving a manual but you still have no clutch. In my cousins eclipse I used it ounce for about a second and went back to auto. I think it will also shift for you if you don't shift in time. Very slow also to interpret the the shift.

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I think it will also shift for you if you don't shift in time.[/b]

Mine will let you bang the rev limiter all you want. But it will prevent you from downshifting if that downshift will cause an over-rev, or at least what it preceives as an over-rev.

Why I like mine:
* I can hold it in a specific gear if I want, which is useful for spirited mountain driving, autoxing, or track use.

Why I don't like mine:
* It's no replacement for a true manual.
* I struggle to get the same gas mileage as the manual Proteges.
* without ABS, if I lock up the brakes, the car will think I'm stopped and shift to 1st gear. If I roll out of the brakes and am traveling faster than 1st gear is capable.........

I miss old car where it actually has linkage going from the shifter to the trans. In my galaxie, when I hit second it goes to second right then.

I drive in the Manual postion.. I just like it better, that way I can shift at higher RPMs.. I would have gotten an manual car but the wfie doesnt know how to drive a stick,, so this has to do..

Ive driven a couple of rentals that had manumatic slapshifting. After playing with it i left it in auto all the time. It wasnt anything close to a manual so it wasnt worth messin with it.

drove a few 3's with the autostick and didn't care for it... was too slow and "slushy". I did however own a CVT car with a "6 speed" manual built in and that was more fun to drive in manual mode...but shifting was super-quick and jerked like a manual in that mode.

How does a "6 speed" work with a constant velocity transmission? Those transmissions are basically "gearless".