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I want my next car to be another manual. Just like driving a manual. Really forces you to stay on top of driving. You can't be twatting, smoking your cig, and drinking your starbucks at the same time.
^This.
The proliferation of gadgets, cars that can park themselves, automatics, etc, where the brain is essentially taken out of the loop leaves people behind the wheel who are both figuratively as well as literally brain dead. And going down the highway at speed where these people are in a two or more ton machine, that scares the crap out of me. There still is no substitute or replacement for the eyes, ears, and brain, no matter what Google or Apple try to tell us.
No one in my family ever drove a car without learning how to drive a Manual transmission. My wife her father drove heavy equipment and large dump trucks all his daughters also learned on standard transmission. The way he taught them was put them in the driver seat and told to drive the car home at 15 years old my wife drove his pickup truck all the way home bucking and stalling from church. I have taught several people how to drive a manual transmission it's easy. My mother and her entire family grew up with only manual transmissions in the 50's that's all common folks had were manuals automatics were a luxury. I took my drivers test in a manual transmission car passed 95%. I drove manual transmissions for 30 years until last few years we have now ended up with all autos. It's not rocket science and good to know because like the OP said some country's that's all you can get. When I was in Cozumel that is exactly what we got a manual transmission. My wife and I are 45 so were not that old my father had be rebuild my first car so I knew who a car worked. While today most younger guys 20-30 have no idea how a wheel even is held on the car it's a shame those are the same people who can't dive a standard transmission.
My guess is 15% and that's pretty generous. I think at work here, maybe 3 guys here knows how to drive stick. Everybody else seems to think stick is pretty dumb.
I know only 2 Americans who know how to drive a stick. If you enjoy driving on a narrow and curvy road, then you really need a stick. It is a lot of fun. Automatic is just boring. But if you spend 3 hrs a day stuck in traffic on your way to and from suburbia, then you'd want an automatic.
I learned how to drive a stick, which was unusual for a girl at the time. The first car I owned was a manual Acura Integra. My husband and I owned that car for fifteen years. Loved it! My kids have never driven a stick. I think I need to do something about that.
Except the last one because you can downshift an automatic on a winding road, too.
Not mine. It has two forward settings: Drive and Low, which is first gear. I have to leave it to make the right decisions about what gear to choose, and it is not very good at downshifting to engine-brake and save the brakes on declines.
If you cannot drive a manual by the time you are 18 yrs old ont try to learn. I'm old school were manual was common but most people today have no idea what a manual even looks like, it's a shame that manuals are on the indanger list for cars and light truks. I can drive anything that has a motor because in my day you had to.
On the other hand, they're a great deterrent to would-be car thieves.
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