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    Re: Roll Call! Who drives a MANUAL transmission?

    I have driven manuals most of my life and feel much more in control with them when driving at the limit(not the speed limit)

    My first car I bought with cash from my summer job was a manual. My mother took care of the paperwork and when I got home from work my mom sent me to pick up my sister from a ball game. Absolutely no experience with one other than my KX80 I figured it out pretty quick.

    Soon after I was doing one wheel(open diff) burnouts and chipping into second. Oh that poor old Ford Escort.

    I’ve killed a few clutches in my day.

    Dumbest was what I called clutch braking that I did with a rear wheel drive car. While coming to a hard stop, I would drop it in 1st and release it while I was breaking to help make the rear wheels skid. A $6-700 clutch job was a good learning experience when your broke and in college.

    I have on 02 WRX now that still has its original clutch at 300,000 miles. The credit has to go to my wife there, I know she’s never launched it or jammed 2nd to kick it sideways through an intersection like feel I have to do occasionally
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    Re: Roll Call! Who drives a MANUAL transmission?

    All the cars but one has had manual transmission that I have owned. And it's not an uncommon thing in Sweden. Here it's standard with manual transmission. When you buy a new car it's an extra thing to ad the automatic transmission. If you do your driver test with an automatic transmission when you take your drivers licens. You can not drive a manual car legaly. So only drive the automatic transmission is to if you decide to do a new drivers test with a manual transmission car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BSoares View Post
    I drive a 6 speed manual on my 2017 GTI. I've owned 6 cars since getting my license and 4 of those were manual, 2 automatic (one I had the option to get manual - a 2008 TSX - but chose automatic because I lived in center city Philadelphia and there was a ton of traffic). I get bored driving an automatic because my left leg has nothing to do. But if I lived in an area with lots of traffic again I'd prefer auto because it sucks to drive a stick using just 1st and 2nd gear for miles at a time.
    Over the years the majority of my cars were manuals (11 manual, 3 auto). If I had a secondary fun car again, I wouldn’t hesitate to make it a manual. Like you ran into, my daily commute involves a lot of slow traffic, and I just lost my enthusiasm for rowing the first couple gears so much. Went Auto with my current avant (no choice for this model), and have been super happy with it. It’s just a conventional 6 speed auto, but the programming/gearing is great. Sport mode actually shifts it where you would have, and it does it’s own little throttle blips to soften the decel downshifts. For a 4,000 lb wagon, it’s way more fun than it should be (Eibachs, a hotchkis rear bar, and some Pilot Super Sports don’t hurt... ).

    My job probably helps make it so I don’t miss having a 3rd pedal - I drive plenty of other people's manuals, so I don’t ever even get the itch to go back.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mantilgh View Post
    I have driven manuals most of my life and feel much more in control with them when driving at the limit(not the speed limit)
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    Soon after I was doing one wheel(open diff) burnouts and chipping into second. Oh that poor old Ford Escort.

    I’ve killed a few clutches in my day.

    Dumbest was what I called clutch braking that I did with a rear wheel drive car. While coming to a hard stop, I would drop it in 1st and release it while I was breaking to help make the rear wheels skid. A $6-700 clutch job was a good learning experience when your broke and in college.

    I have on 02 WRX now that still has its original clutch at 300,000 miles. The credit has to go to my wife there, I know she’s never launched it or jammed 2nd to kick it sideways through an intersection like feel I have to do occasionally
    Reminds me of my Chevette (oh yeah!) I had when I was 16. It was an automatic (but RWD), so it was painfully slow. But, I figured out if you manually shifted into L when you went speeding into a corner, it’d lock the rear up briefly and let you hang the tail. God, the things we did before mechanical sympathy... I remember watching my rear seat passenger relocate from the back right seat to the back left during one of those maneuvers since he wasn’t belted in (which I had noticed) and he didn’t have any warning (which I didn’t give him)...

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    Re: Roll Call! Who drives a MANUAL transmission?

    Quote Originally Posted by oneheadlite View Post
    Over the years the majority of my cars were manuals (11 manual, 3 auto). If I had a secondary fun car again, I wouldn’t hesitate to make it a manual. Like you ran into, my daily commute involves a lot of slow traffic, and I just lost my enthusiasm for rowing the first couple gears so much. Went Auto with my current avant (no choice for this model), and have been super happy with it. It’s just a conventional 6 speed auto, but the programming/gearing is great. Sport mode actually shifts it where you would have, and it does it’s own little throttle blips to soften the decel downshifts. For a 4,000 lb wagon, it’s way more fun than it should be (Eibachs, a hotchkis rear bar, and some Pilot Super Sports don’t hurt... ).

    My job probably helps make it so I don’t miss having a 3rd pedal - I drive plenty of other people's manuals, so I don’t ever even get the itch to go back.



    Reminds me of my Chevette (oh yeah!) I had when I was 16. It was an automatic (but RWD), so it was painfully slow. But, I figured out if you manually shifted into L when you went speeding into a corner, it’d lock the rear up briefly and let you hang the tail. God, the things we did before mechanical sympathy... I remember watching my rear seat passenger relocate from the back right seat to the back left during one of those maneuvers since he wasn’t belted in (which I had noticed) and he didn’t have any warning (which I didn’t give him)...
    I drove my Dad's Chevette in highschool too, but ours had a 4-speed manual! That little car with RWD and a manual was a hoot in the snow. I could steer with the throttle when making tight turns and it was the perfect vehicle for doing donuts in a snow covered parking lot.
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    Re: Roll Call! Who drives a MANUAL transmission?

    Been driving stick shifts since my early days. Just turned 67 last week. Started with VW bugs, then a Carmen Gia or two and a few Fastbacks. They were all Volkswagens. Still driving my Tacoma 03 which is a manual as well. Have a Jeep Wrangler which is an auto but my next truck will be a manual.



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    Re: Roll Call! Who drives a MANUAL transmission?

    Quote Originally Posted by Desertnate View Post
    I drove my Dad's Chevette in highschool too, but ours had a 4-speed manual! That little car with RWD and a manual was a hoot in the snow. I could steer with the throttle when making tight turns and it was the perfect vehicle for doing donuts in a snow covered parking lot.
    Even with an auto, it was a riot in the winter. Little 155mm wide 13" tires. . Every time it'd snow I'd load up 3 buddies and go hooning around (long before that was the phrase ).

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    Re: Roll Call! Who drives a MANUAL transmission?

    I miss driving a standard and I've had all kinds from sports cars to 1 ton trucks but it's so dang hard to find them when I am in the mood to buy a car,,I usually buy trade ins like my Accord was,,for 3 grand under book I didn't care

    I never drove a Chevette in the snow but I did drive a little pinto wagon with a stick when my buddy was too drunk to drive,,,,whatta hoot!
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    All day long...

    2008 Toyota Tacoma 410,000 miles and still going strong.

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    In my life ab i got 43 never drive automatic trabsmision beleve or not iam scerd even to try..Roll Call! Who drives a MANUAL transmission?

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    Re: Roll Call! Who drives a MANUAL transmission?

    We had a Mustang Steeda in today. 2007. Trade in for a Raptor.

    Guy said he had 20K of upgrades.

    Pretty nice drive. I got to push her a bit on the highway. IMO, I'd of kept the Mustang...................
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