REALLY stupid question.

[silverback mike]

Selespeed?? Is it better than manual.
I realise that this is a personal opinion and thus views will differ. Its just that they are plentiful and a little more reasonable than manual counterparts.
Also, I had a fiddle with one today, and couldn't get my tiny brain around it.
I am tossing both options around and so far have heard some hideous horror stories, and others that say they are the bees knees.
I don't want to be a pain in the proverbial, but the alfa dealer I went to couldn't be bothered to speak to me when I visited earlier so needless to say I made a sharp exit issuing lots of negative opinion.
Mike

[pwig]

Its shiter than a shite thing on a shite day in a shite town in shiteland.

[limpsfield]

I have never driven a Selespeed but cannot remember reading anything good about it. I've got a 156 manual, next door neighbour used to have a 2.5 sele and said he wished he had a manual.

Hardly a scientific survey but...

[pdV6]

Makes a lovely noise on downshifts, but your 3 year old niece could make a better job of upshifts.

[silverback mike]

pwig said:

Its shiter than a shite thing on a shite day in a shite town in shiteland.

That sums it up then pwig, ta to everyone. I will mostly not be buying a selespeed then.

[jimbro1000]

pwig said:

Its shiter than a shite thing on a shite day in a shite town in shiteland.

You took the very words out of my mouth except I don't believe they do the system justice.

Although to be fair, once you get used to it the selespeed offers amazingly smooth driving without all the faff of wiggling a stick with a knob on the end. It took me three (test drive) attempts to master it and on that third attempt managed to seriously impress the salesman.

What it doesn't offer is the no-brain, mashed throttle, playstation approach to semi-automatic gearboxes that most people expect. Instead you have an efficient automatic gearbox that gives much better response than a fully automatic system can hope to give (once you put it in manual mode that is - otherwise it *is* just a fully automatic system).

Would I have one? Would I recommend it to anyone else? No (see Pwig's statement) and no! At least not unless it was someone that has adopted lazyness as a way of life and doesn't appreciate the vibrancy of life with a proper, discrete geared transmission.

[silverback mike]

Ta Jim.

[posty]

hehehe

mike

go on, get the V6!!

(i know you want to!!)

[silverback mike]

I know, I do.....
Lets hope the twinspark I am looking at tomorrow is a pig in a poke.

Y reg sportwagon, 80k full history, silver with red leather etc for £5999...seems a good price.

[wombat rick]

Red leather is