My cousin's friend got an Aston Martin DB9(V12 engine) with an automatic transmission. If you're going to buy a car like that, why would anyone buy it in auto unless you couldn't drive stick, but I would learn to drive stick if I bought a car like that. Would you learn stick to drive a car like that?
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Would you ever buy an Aston Martin in Automatic?
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Ilikepiedoyou
Senior member
they amke them in auto so your wife can drive it to
GTaudiophile
Lifer
Probably got a nice Ford slush box in there!
mrSHEiK124
Lifer
If I had the money to drop on that much of a car,
1. I'd probably get an Audi A8, mmmmm W12
2. I'd learn to drive a fscking manual
1. I'd probably get an Audi A8, mmmmm W12
2. I'd learn to drive a fscking manual
BobDaMenkey
Diamond Member
For people with more dollars than sense?
Cerpin Taxt
Lifer
QFTMFT!!!! There have been days that I've driven for 2 or more hours and barely gotten out of 2nd gear the whole time. 1st... 2nd... stop. 1st... 2nd... stop. By the end of the day my knee in my clutch leg is absolutely KILLING me.
Cerpin Taxt
Lifer
If I am not mistaken, that is true of that new guy they got for the Bond movie about to come out, but not Brosnan.
giantpinkbunnyhead
Diamond Member
I sure as hell would; since Aston really knows how to excel at the F1 implementation. I have yet to drive a DB9, but I have driven a Vanquish with the Stage 4 F1 tranny, which as I understand is exactly what they based the DB9 tranny on. The quality and speed of the shifts were absolutely mindboggling; and when downshifting the transmission handles the rev-matching on its own, so you never, EVER got that surge when the new gear engaged. Rather, it felt like a good, clean, perfect shift followed by immense acceleration. The smaller details of operating such a car as a daily driver take some time to learn; the sales director who provided me the Vanquish drive mentioned that it's advisable to keep the car in neutral when stopped for a long light for instance, and that there was an additional trick required for reverse. Neutral was acheived by pulling on both paddle shifters simultaneously.
I was also told that the Vanquish (and perhaps the DB9 too?) has several driving modes for use with the paddle shifters... one is the sport mode in which driving the car is an active effort (most fun!) but one could also choose the full automatic in which the car would behave like your standard, traditional automatic passenger car. Only faster. So yes... I would definitely buy an automatic Aston.
I was also told that the Vanquish (and perhaps the DB9 too?) has several driving modes for use with the paddle shifters... one is the sport mode in which driving the car is an active effort (most fun!) but one could also choose the full automatic in which the car would behave like your standard, traditional automatic passenger car. Only faster. So yes... I would definitely buy an automatic Aston.
mrSHEiK124
Lifer
Wait a minute, when you guys say automatic Aston Martin, are you implying it has an SMG? In that case, screw M/T, sequential FTW.
Don Vito Corleone
Elite
No, it's a true automatic. I would personally still prefer a stick, because that's a lot of the fun of driving IMO, but by all accounts the AM/XF auto is excellent, and significantly less fussy than a SMG.
GagHalfrunt
Lifer
1) The Aston Martin is a luxury, image car bought by people who want comfort and convenience. It might have a V-12, but it's target audience is poseurs, NOT boy racers.
2) Capable, trained drivers generall regard the Aston Martin F-1 style gearbox as the biggest piece of junk in the world. It's not really a paddle shift manual, it's a computer-controlled paddle shift automatic with a computer that thinks that nobody should be driving fast. It refuses to allow the type of shifts that are used in performance driving and only lets you make the kind of moves that a Buick slushbox would make.
NOBODY ON EARTH is buying a DB9 because they want to drive like Mario Andretti. They're buying it to be seen in it, period. Anyone that's shopping in that price range that wants a car they can really drive is buying an F430 Modena.
2) Capable, trained drivers generall regard the Aston Martin F-1 style gearbox as the biggest piece of junk in the world. It's not really a paddle shift manual, it's a computer-controlled paddle shift automatic with a computer that thinks that nobody should be driving fast. It refuses to allow the type of shifts that are used in performance driving and only lets you make the kind of moves that a Buick slushbox would make.
NOBODY ON EARTH is buying a DB9 because they want to drive like Mario Andretti. They're buying it to be seen in it, period. Anyone that's shopping in that price range that wants a car they can really drive is buying an F430 Modena.
thomsbrain
Lifer
it isn't exactly a porsche or a ferrari. it's a touring car, not a sports car. an automatic is probably the ideal transmission for that car and the type of person who would buy one.
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