Butch!

[Perknose]

NPR listeners are 42% more likely to have a manual tranny in their car than the average American!

http://jimromenesko.com/2011/11/22/what-npr-knows-about-its-listeners/

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Hmm.

 

[KentState]

Probably because you are too busy driving a car and it gets stuck on a radio station just for noise

 

[satyajitmenon]

Wait. They're talking about me. :hmm:

 

[punjabiplaya]

automatic transmissions are so mainstream

 

[Pariah]

Probably because most of them bought their car before the automatic transmission had been invented.

They are 27% more likely than the average adult to own a bread-making machine.

I fail to see how this information could be useful to anyone at all. Unless the survey was sponsored by a company that manufactures bread-making machines, which I somehow doubt is the case. Why would something like this even be asked?

 

[ShawnD1]

Probably because most of them bought their car before the automatic transmission had been invented.

Isn't NPR a hardcore liberal thing? They all drive manuals because automatics are terrible unless the car has a lot of power. Something many liberals (young people) can't afford.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Isn't NPR a hardcore liberal thing? They all drive manuals because automatics are terrible unless the car has a lot of power. Something many liberals (young people) can't afford.

I consider myself far from liberal and my car is a stick, wouldn't have it any other way either. Also I don't listen to NPR because of the liberal thing.

 

[ElFenix]

hipster college students drive 10 year old civic HXs with a stick for the irony

 

[Vic Vega]

http://youtu.be/6Re-OdWBCRs

 

[ShawnD1]

I consider myself far from liberal and my car is a stick, wouldn't have it any other way either. Also I don't listen to NPR because of the liberal thing.

Hipsters don't have a choice. It's either crappy 80hp car with manual or walk. Hipsters listen to NPR.

Lots of middle class people don't seem to have much choice either. One cannot buy a Toyota Tacoma V6 with a manual transmission. Same with the Honda Accord V6 sedan. When people grow up and buy a minivan, they're automatically put in the automatic transmission camp. Even if they wanted the manual, they would still get automatic because their mentally crippled wife doesn't know how to drive a manual and refuses to learn.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Lots of ignorant ass-umptions in this thread.

 

[homercles337]

Isn't NPR a hardcore liberal thing? They all drive manuals because automatics are terrible unless the car has a lot of power. Something many liberals (young people) can't afford.

NPR is only as liberal as facts. They are neutral, and sometimes right-leaning to a fault for fear of being screamed at as "libjural medjia" by the corporate media/right.

 

[kornphlake]

Lots of ignorant ass-umptions in this thread.

nah, just ShawnD1 typing as fast as he can as usual.

 

[ShawnD1]

nah, just ShawnD1 typing as fast as he can as usual.

And then holocaust deniers like you chime in.

fact - NPR is liberal
fact - liberals are poor
I've already mentioned that peasant cars tend to have manual transmissions since a car like the Ford Tempo with a 3 speed automatic (my car) has a 0-60 time of approximately 9 minutes while its 5 speed manual cousin can do it in maybe 11 seconds. Then there's also the fact that more expensive cars often don't even have an optional manual transmission.

NPR is only as liberal as facts.

Reality does tend to have a liberal bias ^_^

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Isn't NPR a hardcore liberal thing? They all drive manuals because automatics are terrible unless the car has a lot of power. Something many liberals (young people) can't afford.

I certainly don't agree it is a "hardcore liberal thing." For whatever it's worth I have two BMWs, including an M3, both with manuals, am not particularly young (I'm 41), and listen to NPR regularly. Actually I have only owned one car with an automatic (an Accord V6), and it was not one of the nicer cars I've owned.

 

[WackyDan]

Meh... I am getting ready to switch to an automatic... mainly as that is my only choice in the vehicle I am buying and secondly, due to knee and back issues which have made driving stick somewhat challenging at times.

 

[Vetterin]

My nickname is Butch..........I drive a 6 speed manual (Cruze Eco)............am on the north side of 60 and the only news I get is from the Sports channel.

 

[rdp6]

Me: B6 Passat 2.0T 6M; 11 year active duty linguist, now electrical engineer for the largest aerospace corporation. Manual transmission or it is not right. Willing to give DSG a try as it still qualifies as a clutch transmission.
Wife: 2011 Flex Ecoboost; 4 year active duty linguist and combat veteran; now biologist. Can drive a stick but prefers auto for now.
Both: huge NPR fans; consider ourselves politically independent, but find the neocon stance to be roughly doubly hypocritical compared to the liberal stance. Good ideas may arise from anywhere but Washington, it seems.

I have been listening to Marketplace, Planet Money, Freakonomics, the Bugle, and Real Time with Bill Mahr faithfully; others include Car Talk, Adam Corolla Carcast, Radiolab, and rarely Stuff Podcast and This Week in Tech. My employer is 46 miles distant from my home, so I have plenty of time to listen.

At home my 3 year old gets to watch Sid the Science Kid, Super Why, Barney, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, all on PBS. Generally 1 or 2 shows per day total.

I started on public radio in San Antonio, home of ClearChannel and coordinated advertising on all commercial radio. I listen to older metal, grunge, and stuff like the Pixies, but fell in love with music from Trinity University's radio station KRTU and started donating at that time.

I have yet to meet any NPR fans who are closed-minded, and there are plenty of NPR fans of all ages among my colleagues.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Me: B6 Passat 2.0T 6M; 11 year active duty linguist, now electrical engineer for the largest aerospace corporation. Manual transmission or it is not right. Willing to give DSG a try as it still qualifies as a clutch transmission.
Wife: 2011 Flex Ecoboost; 4 year active duty linguist and combat veteran; now biologist. Can drive a stick but prefers auto for now.
Both: huge NPR fans; consider ourselves politically independent, but find the neocon stance to be roughly doubly hypocritical compared to the liberal stance. Good ideas may arise from anywhere but Washington, it seems.

I have been listening to Marketplace, Planet Money, Freakonomics, the Bugle, and Real Time with Bill Mahr faithfully; others include Car Talk, Adam Corolla Carcast, Radiolab, and rarely Stuff Podcast and This Week in Tech. My employer is 46 miles distant from my home, so I have plenty of time to listen.

At home my 3 year old gets to watch Sid the Science Kid, Super Why, Barney, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, all on PBS. Generally 1 or 2 shows per day total.

I started on public radio in San Antonio, home of ClearChannel and coordinated advertising on all commercial radio. I listen to older metal, grunge, and stuff like the Pixies, but fell in love with music from Trinity University's radio station KRTU and started donating at that time.

I have yet to meet any NPR fans who are closed-minded, and there are plenty of NPR fans of all ages among my colleagues.

The fact that you listen to Bill Mahr is proof you are way left leaning. Bill Mahr is the Liberal version of Rush Limbaugh

And then holocaust deniers like you chime in.

fact - NPR is liberal
fact - liberals are poor
I've already mentioned that peasant cars tend to have manual transmissions since a car like the Ford Tempo with a 3 speed automatic (my car) has a 0-60 time of approximately 9 minutes while its 5 speed manual cousin can do it in maybe 11 seconds. Then there's also the fact that more expensive cars often don't even have an optional manual transmission.


Reality does tend to have a liberal bias ^_^

If you are driving a Ford Tempo you must be poor therefore you are a liberal?

Saying someone is liberal or conservative based on care choices is absurd. I've seen several Toyota Prius's around here with Anti-Obama stickers and Pro Gun stickers.
While I've seen jacked up 4x4 Super Duty's with Pro-Obama stickers on them.

 

[kornphlake]

In 2011 income has nothing to do with what car you drive, the ghettos are full of high end cars while a middle class neighborhood has a bigger share of beaters than income alone would suggest. Income doesn't exclusively determine political affiliation, there are a number of other political issues that polarize the two big parties, abortion, gay rights, etc. ShawnD1 is Canadian, I'm not sure he has a dog in this fight to begin with.

 

[herm0016]

i listen to NPR quite a lot. Car Talk, Brian leher, market place, Prairie home companion, wait,wait, don't tell me, and some others.

i can usually barely stand to listen to Diane Rehm or some of the others that are blatenly bias twards the left.

i drive a truck with an auto.

 

[BUTCH1]

You rang????