THE BENEFITS
Driving an automatic certainly has its benefits, the main being just how easy they are to drive.
It’s as simple as turning on the ignition, putting your foot on the accelerator and driving away, letting the automatic engine handle the gears and clutch.
It’s very unlikely you’ll be able to stall an automatic – it's nearly impossible to do so – so you can forget about those difficult clutch control moments when you’re attempting a hill start.
Without needing to control the clutch also means there’s no clutch to wear out, hopefully resulting in less trips to the garage for maintenance.
There used to be an argument that car manufacturers don’t offer the same variety of automatic models that you could get with manuals, but this simply isn’t the case anymore.
Nearly all Honda models feature an automatic option – you can browse them here.