Yeah, then it'd be a horrid drive at all times
At least I'd then be justified in torching it
I'll elaborate a little about the town driving thing. Gearing is too high, so even at full pelt you're doing 30 before it starts to properly shift, not much good driving in 30/40 limits trying to get out of a busy junction. Auto would be worse - manual has stupidly high gearing, auto has
insanely high gearing!
Sometimes misfires under load, most likely due to the sh1tty plug leads breaking down (these will be replaced soon). This is a total pain in the ass, cos just when you need power is when it's most likely to splutter. Thankfully it can be temporarily cured by dropping the clutch to remove the load a little while still propelling the car forward - doesn't do the clutch much good, but it's better than someone running into the back of you as you splutter along with sod-all power!
When it's cold the ECU thinks it's a good idea to hold the idle around 2,000 RPM. Fine - except it doesn't seem to make any difference that the car is in gear and you're braking coming up to a junction, hence the car trying to accelerate with the gas pedal completely closed. Again cured by dropping the clutch so the ECU can feel chuffed with itself and get the revs back to 2,000 but break me what a PITA, no other car seems to be so damn anal (my 840Ci idles about 900 RPM when cold). Fine when it warms up though, idles at the proper 600 or so.
I should add on an unrelated point, the exhaust that's on the car is damn noisy between 1500-2500 RPM, it's not rusted or anything just cheap sh1te I suspect. At least with a manual I can just about drive around it by revving to 4000 RPM in 2nd then going into 5th which keeps it below the dreaded drone, I think if it were an auto and I was forced to listen to that drone I'd have driven off a cliff by now
. There should be laws against people fitting such lumps of sh1te of an exhaust, with maybe an exception for Novas and Saxos which is the only place they should be - sh1tty exhausts for sh1tty chavvied-up cars