New car hi-fi build!

[Marco]

I realise that.
However, for me there is a pedal missing, which detracts from the pleasure of driving.
I am not old enough for an automatic yet.

Lol - neither am I! However, the vast majority of Mercedes C-Classes (and above) are automatic. If I'd had the choice of a manual car, I'd have taken it, but there was so many other things I loved about the Branster, which sold it to me, that the automatic gearbox wasn't a deal breaker

Marco.

[Marco]

I'll tell you what I told the supplier - it was already like that! And besides, I don't even like sweetcorn.

Yeah, I know, but I heard the stain looked more like oxtail. One of their customer service staff could've sniffed it, to determine its likely origin, but for some inexplicable reason they were reluctant to do that

Marco.

[User211]

Lol - neither am I! However, the vast majority of Mercedes C-Classes (and above) are automatic. If I'd had the choice of a manual car, I'd have taken it, but there was so many other things I loved about the Branster, which sold it to me, that the automatic gearbox wasn't a deal breaker

Marco.

Autos totally come into their own when you have adaptive cruise control.

Adaptive cruise is just brilliant. I will never buy another car without at least adaptive cruise.

What is it people may ask? Well basically you set the car to stay at the distance you want (I think it is really time domain based) and a radar tracks the car in front of you. All you do is steer the car. The braking and gear changes are done for you and the car maintains the distance.

The system also makes it hard to drive into someone, even when disengaged, as it warns and automatically applies the brakes if it senses you are likely to hit it.

Boring you say? Not when you are stuck in huge queues, or in heavy town traffic, or in some dross overpopulated A road, or have a huge motorway journey.

Town and queue driving is a bitch with a.manual, especially in sportier cars, where the clutches are usually heavier.

No denying a manual gives a better sense of real uninterrupted control, though. But these days double clucthe, adaptive cruise and various different ways to change gear (steering wheel buttons, levers etc), the gear stick itself (mine has two gear stick modes - a sort of 'fuck off intervention' mode and a 'resume auto mode quickly' mode) are making manuals a seriously questionable option.

[mightymonoped]

Autos totally come into their own when you have adaptive cruise control.

Adaptive cruise is just brilliant. I will never buy another car without at least adaptive cruise.

What is it people may ask? Well basically you set the car to stay at the distance you want (I think it is really time domain based) and a radar tracks the car in front of you. All you do is steer the car. The braking and gear changes are done for you and the car maintains the distance.

The system also makes it hard to drive into someone, even when disengaged, as it warns and automatically applies the brakes if it senses you are likely to hit it.

Boring you say? Not when you are stuck in huge queues, or in heavy town traffic, or in some dross overpopulated A road, or have a huge motorway journey.

Town and queue driving is a bitch with a.manual, especially in sportier cars, where the clutches are usually heavier.

No denying a manual gives a better sense of real uninterrupted control, though. But these days double clucthes and various different ways to change gear ( steering wheel buttons, levers etc), the gear stick itself (mine has two gear stick modes - a sort of 'fuck off intervention' mode and a 'resume auto mode quickly' mode) are making manuals as seriously questionable option.

+1

ACC is the best thing since sliced bread. Takes a considerable amount of physical and mental stress out of long journeys.

Having had it in my last car, it was the one essential in my next car.


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[User211]

Anyway if there is another MIBO ever, I demand a good workout of that systemo dude. Bitches and hoes in da back seats, naturally.

[Marco]

Boring you say? Not when you are stuck in huge queues, or in heavy town traffic, or in some dross overpopulated A road, or have a huge motorway journey.

Thankfully, not situations I find myself in often, Justers... I have no issues whatsoever with the automatic gearbox on the Brabster, as it's as sweet as a nut

What's far more interesting (and entertaining) is the sheer power/torque and rapid acceleration available on kick-downs!

Marco.

[Marco]

Anyway if there is another MIBO ever, I demand a good workout of that systemo dude. Bitches and hoes in da back seats, naturally.

Oh that's a defo! If not, it could happen at Cranage, as I'm keen for Sean's expertise to become more widely known around these parts, and by then with some tweaks he's got planned, the car system should be even more of a giggle

Marco.

[Jimbo]

+1 for ACC, got it on my Golf and its superb.

[FidelityArt]

Well done Marco.

I was very impressed with the sound stage in the little Mini at Cranage.

Probably my next HiFi upgrade will be the in the car.

[User211]

+1 for ACC, got it on my Golf and its superb.

It has a number of marketing name variants and implementations.

Some will suck, some will be average, some will be impressive, and some.will fuck your mind a bit.

As in all walks of life.