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Sentronic can be both.... Posted by Mike Lynch [Email]  (#81) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Mike Lynch) on Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:31:02
In Reply to: Auto or manual?, JGold, Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:35:48 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
While not the best linkage, a 9-5's manual linkage can be very satisfying, it's adequate, not a great shifter, but not a bad one either.
You don't need to do a lot of shifting in a 9-5 Aero. The broad torque in the Saab turbo engines allows one to minimize shifting. You can actually leave an Aero in 3rd for pretty much anything from 35mph to 100mph! You'll have plenty of grunt down low and it'll rev smoothly all the way up, I call it "wundergear".
The new paradigm is the 5 speed Sentronic automatic with paddle shifting. You can downshift or hold a particular gear for a particular situation and car control just like a manual, but without a clutch pedal. There's not the immediacy of manual, there is some delay and the Sentronic is somewhat reluctant to downshift at high rpm's, but if you want to downshift into a corner and hold a gear for car control until you decide to upshift, it does a fine job. So you can mimic a manual and the control it gives you and still select drive, or better still drive and the sport setting, in stop and go traffic. You can't teach a manual to shift automatically, but you can shift an automatic sentronic pretty much like a manual.
Many, many years ago you absolutely ruined a fine european performance car by getting it with an automatic. They were only three speeds, not geared low enough to get out of the hole, and not geared high enough calm the free way driving. And older cars didn't have the excessive amount of horsepower and torque of today's cars. Now with the 5 speed autos and sentronic shifting one could make a case that the sentronic auto is the better performance car for the track too as at the Saab Aero Academy.
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