No, I'm not that much of a control freak.
My point is that an automatic transmission cannot anticipate my needs, in fact it's a second or two behind. I can anticipate my needs and see that my engine speed and gearing will be what I need them to be when I need them.
The Saturn's greater engine power combined with much better selections by the automatic transmission is a vast improvement over the Escort, but it's still sometimes messing around doing the wrong thing for a second or two and has to change its mind.
Automatic ignition timing and injection control are better than I'd want to bother to be at their job, so I'm perfectly happy to let them have those functions.
Now, for my real complaint. This Saturn is the first car I've had with an alarm system built in. Now that stupid thing is a TOTAL pain in the ass.
