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14 cars, 27 years, all manual except a 2 year stint in a 4Runner. Love driving stick. Love the lighter clutches for traffic.
I've always told my gf's to learn how to drive a manual or at least understand the concept in case they need to drive one. I've taught most of them; taught a few male friends too. I've been told my car will sell easily since it's highly coveted (style, color, MANUAL) and super hard to find; which I understand, in a 200 mile radius, there was 1 available when I purchased it. It's getting harder and harder to find manuals. Not sure what my next car will be, but it has to be a manual transmission!
The takeup of manual transmissions on Camrys even from the beginning (1983?) has been extremely rare - I think I've only seen one or two in over 30+ years.
Kind of reminds me when I actually purchased a 4-door Honda Accord with a manual transmission. That was kinda hard to sell. lol
Not in the circumstance the average Joe and Jane drive cares in. The auto is less tiresome in everyday traffic.
Sure bumper to bumper is a pita. I'm not disagreeing.
Other than that m exoerience has been what I stated. I have two identical trucks. Same cab/body configuration it's literally a identical twins situation. One is a auto one is a manual.
The manual kicks the crap out of the auto in every instance except the bumper to bumper.
I worked at an auto repair shop in my late teenage years pumping gas, cleaning the shop, jockeying customer cars around, picking up customers or taking them home, doing oil changes, etc. I had to learn to drive vehicles with a manual transmission. I hadn't driven one for about 15 years but was looking to buy a Honda Accord and the dealer had an oustanding deal on two leftover manual transmission models. Just like riding a bike I had no problems when I test drove one. My wife didn't know how to drive with a manual and didn't want to learn so we got an automatic.
Yes, I can. In fact, I do it almost every day, in a 1999 Dodge Ram Cummins with 5 speed manual transmission.
The car I learned to drive in was a 1939 Ford Coupe with three on the floor.
In High School I had a 1941 Chevy coupe with "three on the tree".
I wish my PT Cruiser Turbo was a five speed manual...
Manual cars are actually more fun to drive than automatics. It takes some coordination to do it
I second that more fun to drive! A few months ago when I was test driving cars, to figure out what I might want if my car dies, the Mazda salesman brought me out to the car and we set it to get ready to drive and he realized it was a manual transmission. He apologized saying that he would go get the keys for another car and I said, no I would drive this one! It'd been almost 15 years since I last drove a stick, but I still remembered it and it was a lot of fun! I think driving a stick is it actually sold me on the Mazda as a car that I might want! I problem is that I live in the city, with a lot of stop and go traffic. Driving a manual will get really old really fast.
My first 5 vehicles were stick shift. 2 had 4 on the floor. I worked on a farm and learned to drive in a 1929 Model-A Ford.
My last stick was a 5 spd 1974 Ford imported De Tomaso Mangusta.
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