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I've driven some very high powered cars with stick but for daily driver to work I prefer my Prius with the CVT. It's just so effortless and easy. Going to work in some areas there are 10-15mins of bumper to bumper traffic and it can wear down your leg going home. In the end, I much rather drive simple car for work and on the weekend I can enjoy my high powered stick shift cars
A buyer driving across three states to buy your manual Mazda tells me original production of manual transmissions for that model was probably very low. You had a buyer looking for a used one, and had to have a manual, and was willing to travel a long distance to get it, and pay a premium price.
100% correct I have been searching high and low for a 2007-2011 BMW 650i convertible in a 6spd manual at a certain price point for a while now. They are out there. When a particular comes up you have been searching for you HAVE to jump on it, even if that means taking a leap of faith and buying sight unseen.
Funny thing is, for "normal" cars like the Nissan Versa S sedan, the stick shift version actually costs you less by about $1,000 than the automatic Versa sedan. Thanks, Dad, for teaching me how ta drive stick shift rigs. I learned on a 1966 VW Fastback in baby blue, 4-speeds. That car was a ball ta drive. I got hit by a lady who was "late for my ceramics class!"
The other accident in that car was done by me, myself and I. I hit the brakes on a snow-covered furniture store parking lot! Not smart. I skidded right off that lot into a landscaped area, up and onto a large boulder. Broke several front-end parts. It was Dad's VW Fastback, and apparently he loved that car as much as I because he decided ta get it's front end rebuilt. Maybe it wasn't damaged as bad as I thought. I think he remembered a certain accident he caused in Europe in a car that he and his buddies bought while in the service over there. Showed some leniency to me because I never heard a word from him about that accident - I was only a few months with my driver's license then, winter of 1975.
I've driven some very high powered cars with stick but for daily driver to work I prefer my Prius with the CVT. It's just so effortless and easy. Going to work in some areas there are 10-15mins of bumper to bumper traffic and it can wear down your leg going home. In the end, I much rather drive simple car for work and on the weekend I can enjoy my high powered stick shift cars
I don't personally like the CVT transmissions they have a rubber band type feel to them.
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