Nismo14
Senior Member
- First Name
- Tiffany
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2017
- Threads
- 2
- Messages
- 116
- Reaction score
- 96
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL
- Vehicle(s)
- 17 Hatch Sport Touring; 14 370Z Nismo
- Thread starter
- #16
You are hilarious...love the low end torque of the prius...bet it takes the hatch off the line hahahah. I drive two hours tomorrow to pick it up. So i will provide my feedback tomorrow night. Cant wait to meet my baby!I drove a 6-Speed Type S Acura RSX for about 10 years. I sold it and bought a Coupe Touring. I was initially hesitant about buying into a CVT--10 years of stepping on a clutch was engrained into me. Ive had my coupe for just under a year now and honestly wouldnt go back to a manual. The car is, no matter what speed, always in its perfect torque band. Even at freeway speeds, if you step on the gas hard the car still accelerates as if you were taking off from a stand still. Theres never a perception of shifting. This is annoying to some, but, I actually really like slamming on the gas and having a "star trek spaceship feel" where the car just launches forward with no hesitation every few seconds as the car or you have to shift from gear to gear. Its most noticeable if you're in a situation at a stop light and you take off with another car with roughly the same HP as you, they can't keep up. Its fun to watch, because you can clearly see it happening, their car lurch forward and then fall back slightly as the car or they switch gears, there is no way around that with a traditional transmission that has gears, at some point they will have to spend a fraction of a second switch gears, meanwhile my coupe doesnt ever stop the acceleration process because there are no gears to switch to, its always a constant thrust forward. But most importantly, I like the 45mpg I get with a CVT. I smile every time Im near a Prius because I know, we're getting roughly the same gas mileage but they, well, theyre driving a Prius hahahahah.
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