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I prefer stick. I have driven stick since I got my license. I think that cars now-a-days are too easy to drive, and any unskilled and uncoordinated person can multitask while driving or confuse the gas with the brake and crash into a storefront like you see ever so often. I think all cars should be manual, and if you can't drive one you shouldn't be on the road.
All cars should be a manual? No, thanks. A manual transmission in my '76 Cadillac Limousine would be silly, illogical and unnecessary
I got to say that even though I am "pro" Manual, the gas mileage today won't be that much different as some have also mentioned. But it also depends on how you drive it. If not driven correctly, you could actually get worse mileage than an Auto. But driven correctly, you may do a little better, but not that much to notice a sizable difference.
I do not understand how or why certain people say driving a manual makes you more aware of...driving or paying attention to the road. Admittedly, I eat, text, drink, etc. all while shifting gears. If anything, my actions coupled with a manual transmission makes me a worse driver.
I do not understand how or why certain people say driving a manual makes you more aware of...driving or paying attention to the road. Admittedly, I eat, text, drink, etc. all while shifting gears. If anything, my actions coupled with a manual transmission makes me a worse driver.
They are the same people who claim that Starbucks coffee is supreme.
I do not understand how or why certain people say driving a manual makes you more aware of...driving or paying attention to the road. Admittedly, I eat, text, drink, etc. all while shifting gears. If anything, my actions coupled with a manual transmission makes me a worse driver.
You're clearly part of the problem, it's no surprise you don't understand. Gee you think doing everything except DRIVING while driving makes you worse?
You're clearly part of the problem, it's no surprise you don't understand. Gee you think doing everything except DRIVING while driving makes you worse?
Exactly. That is what I admitted. I have no shame about this. You can be just as bad at driving or inattentive with a manual as an automatic. There's just more to do from 0 - 30. Sometimes I even end up revving high to finish a text, then shift!
The gas mileage advantage that manual transmissions historically had, has pretty much disappeared in modern vehicles, given the 6-9 speed automatics that are typical now, plus other advancements, like electronic control & lock-up torque converters.
It also isn't as easy to push-start a modern fuel-injected vehicle, as it was the old carbureted vehicles. The electronic fuel injectors need power from the battery, and if it is too heavily discharged, it won't start by pushing.
Well thank you for that info. Wasn't aware. However, I had a 1973 fuel-injected Volkswagon pop-top Westfalia bus that I did start by popping the clutch once. But as you said, perhaps the battery wasn't too drained.
I've driven manual about 20 years now. My 3rd manual car, Mk. II VW Jetta was the most fun to drive car I've ever had. I have a Mk. III now and it's not as fun, I think because the car is heavier. That little Mk. II felt like it was a part of me. I'd zip around town, up, down, speedin' all over. Hugging them curves. And with snow tires on, look out Grandma! I was fearless in snow with that thing.
I can drive a stick and do every day. A stick on the wrong side of the car? Yikes!
dpm1, for an American tourist the shift stick will only be on the "wrong side" of the car when traveling to a country where they drive on the left hand side of the road, e.g. the UK :-)
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