Quote Originally Posted by niky View Post
Oops. What I meant to say was less control than a manual.

Yes, I've driven the CVT Jazz (and loved every minute of it), and yes, it gives you a lot of control that you don't get with an AT. It'll give you the same or better acceleration than a manual much of the time, but personally, it's still more of a filter between you and the road than a standard manual... it's not quite there for sports drivers, not yet. It smoothens out the torque a little too much, hurting outright pace (versus a manual)... that's if you're a good driver (I wish I was... ). For 99% of the time, the CVT gives you enough control... then you drive the new Civic's manual variant, and you're reminded how sweet a good stick can be. Can't wait till they put the six-speed stick (yes, six!) from the CR-V onto the Civic.

But then, I've noted this with Honda's 5-speed AT on the Civic, too. Honda's semi-auto programming is less of an annoying nanny than most, and I highly recommend either the Civic 2.0 SL or the Jazz 1.5 CVT to local speed freaks who can't live with a stick yet still want to swap cogs by themselves.

Me? Give me a stick, anytime. When DSG becomes affordable on small cars, then I'll switch...
6? I don't get why they keep adding gears when I was perfectly happy with 4 gears before -- faster acceleration and less shifting in city driving. Sure maybe more gears can give better performance and efficiency in highway driving, but we have much fewer highways here. And the highway roads in the provinces have trikes and kuliglig's and sugarcane trucks you have to slow down for!

Baka conspiracy yan para ipa-shift lahat ng mundo sa at para mas malaki benta ng oil companies ah!