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Mee too with Auto 86, love it... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I've got a BRZ auto ... fun with those paddles!

I’m also running an Auto 86

Great! It's like we could start an auto club within the drivers club. 😁🤣

Auto 86 too....I'm loving it! 😁 Don't feel lonely Jay.....plenty of us on here paddling through the gears!

When are we doing this again??? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I will post few more suggestions as well (although some dates are not known yet). May as well start planning now to gouge interest for a club stand. Will post also on the FB Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk

When would you like to? Next time can go up the Box Hill like Luke. Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk

I don't get this. I've done four long Euro trips in my car including desestricted autobahn on all of them. I think the gearing is ideal. I don't cruise over 80 in this country but the car with the gearing it has is happiest cruising at 100mph. At 90 it's great too as you are well into the torque band of the engine so it picks up really well to about 110mph. Far better than it does at 70mph in 6th gear. Over 100mph fuel consumption really takes a hit I find. On derestricted autobahn I cruise between 100-110mph which is fine. I'll have the odd run over 200km/h (120mph) and beyond where there's space. I do tons of long distance driving in my car, only went from Manchester to London and back yesterday, it handles it really well. I wouldn't want the gearing to be longer. Still returned 43.6mpg as well which is good enough I think.

It could do with a 7th longer gear.....keeping the 6 it already has. Cruising at 90-100mph (140-160kph) puts the engine right where I don't want it (MT). It has GT in the name, which stands for 'Grand Tourer' in most peoples' dictionaries.....it should be capable of doing some 'grand touring'. Clearly the designers had 70mph cruising as their priority when selecting the top ratio - some of us like to cruise a bit faster. Often 70mph feels like I could get out and walk faster. Perhaps I crave an Aston Martin?

Learnt a hard lesson last Saturday night that you should just drink and leave the car at home rather than not drinking and driving! Someone had cut across my car leaving some lovely scrapes on my front bumper and even better damaging and cracking my Seibon carbon front splitter! The bumper i'm not so concerned about as its relatively 'cheap' to sort out but the splitter is another story! Does anyone know of a company in the North East that repairs carbon?