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I learned to drive a stick shift 20 years ago when I started driving. I always have driven manual trans until a few years ago after moving to New Jersey. The traffic was too much for me to keep riding out a clutch. It seemed hard on the car. Driving in North Jersey and NYC becomes tiring with a stick shift car, no doubt.
I decided to get a car with an automatic. Ive been driving it for 2 years and I hate it. I remember when I lived in Nevada and used to drive in the Mountains, I really liked the ability to control the car to the terrain and manipulate gears and speed. I feel the interstate and city streets are no different. I feel more in control and in tune with the road in manual trans car. Ill put up with grinding the clutch through traffic.
Are people here in the states still even driving stick shift? I rarely meet anyone these day who drives one.
Any others who moved to auotmatic and then gave it up to go back to manual?
How easy is it to find a new car with a standard transmission? Im looking to get out of this car next year.
I also like to control my three cars in different terrain and manipulate the gears and speed. All of my cars have an automatic and can be shifted up and down manually. I have driven all three of them on Big Tujunga Canyon, in the Angeles National Forest and have had no problems controlling the cars.
while i know how to drive a stick shift, i have not done so for years now because of stiffness in my left leg preventing me from properly operating the clutch. however automatics can be set up to where you can shift them manually when you choose to do so, and teh addition of an aftermarket ratchet shifter prevents you from selecting a gear you dont want.
I learned to drive a stick shift 20 years ago when I started driving. I always have driven manual trans until a few years ago after moving to New Jersey. The traffic was too much for me to keep riding out a clutch. It seemed hard on the car. Driving in North Jersey and NYC becomes tiring with a stick shift car, no doubt.
I decided to get a car with an automatic. Ive been driving it for 2 years and I hate it. I remember when I lived in Nevada and used to drive in the Mountains, I really liked the ability to control the car to the terrain and manipulate gears and speed. I feel the interstate and city streets are no different. I feel more in control and in tune with the road in manual trans car. Ill put up with grinding the clutch through traffic.
Are people here in the states still even driving stick shift? I rarely meet anyone these day who drives one.
Any others who moved to auotmatic and then gave it up to go back to manual?
How easy is it to find a new car with a standard transmission? Im looking to get out of this car next year.
I've driven stick and auto. All my sports cars were stick. My suv's auto. The auto in my cx5 is amazing. Telepathic. The auto in the 370z I drove was pure crap. I bought the manual. It was pretty bad too. My manual in my ws.6 trans am and c6 z06 were both amazing.
Our '01 BMW X5 is a 5 spd manual, and our '02 VetteVert is a 6 spd manual...my CEO's '10 Hyundai Tucson is an auto, but it was available as a 6 spd when she got it.
This topic comes up here on the Juke box, every couple months.
There are a few car species to pick from that come with a manual trans, but they are diminishing in number every year. Some brands offer a 6 spd, but often with the base engine; others offer more choice.
I suspect Porsche, BMW, Corvette et al and the like are not on your short list for driving around NJ/NYC.
GL, mD
I leaned to drive in one, I've only ever had one automatic the rest have been manual as we say here. if you pass your test here in a manual you are licenced to drive both but if you pass in an automatic that's all you can drive.
Ill put up with grinding the clutch through traffic.
How easy is it to find a new car with a standard transmission? Im looking to get out of this car next year.
What is grinding the clutch? If you hear grinding noises when you depress the clutch you have a bad throwout bearing usually caused by riding the clutch.
Or do you mean you hear grinding when you shift gears which is caused by not depressing the clutch all the way to the floor?
Here is a list of cars available with a manual. It's from 2011 but probably still relevant.
What is grinding the clutch? If you hear grinding noises when you depress the clutch you have a bad throwout bearing usually caused by riding the clutch.
Or do you mean you hear grinding when you shift gears which is caused by not depressing the clutch all the way to the floor?
Here is a list of cars available with a manual. It's from 2011 but probably still relevant.
My wife and two kids learned on manual transmission cars and we all still drive them today.
I just love to interact with the car and feel much more in control. With and automatic, I continually interact with the gas pedal, and my gas mileage sucks as a result.
We all joke that the manual transmission is a great "anti-theft" device and nowadays no one can ask to "borrow" the car!
Mikey
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