how many people know how to drive manual?

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: JMapleton
A manual is bane and useless unless it's on a sports car. People with manuals in their Honda Civics or Mazda 6s are just pointlessly being snobs about it thinking their car is some kind of sports car "ohh i need to feel the road" stfu please.

 

[tasmanian]

I know how to drive a stick and currently own one. However I wish it was an automatic. Fucking starting and stopping on hills in a truck sucks.

 

[Adul]

where is the poll?

I know how to

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: JMapleton
A manual is bane and useless unless it's on a sports car. People with manuals in their Honda Civics or Mazda 6s are just pointlessly being snobs about it thinking their car is some kind of sports car "ohh i need to feel the road" stfu please.

Uhhh... what about people that simply prefer driving a manual? Or do their preferences not count at all?

 

[Deviant Grasshopper]

OMGWTF POLL.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Originally posted by: spaceman
not how many own a manual, but what % of licensed drivers know how to operate one?

Where i'm from you will need to learn to drive a manual before you get your licence, so yeah, even a 12 gear with a reversed shift, took quite a while to get used to shift backwards for 5 gears forward + overdrive 5 gears forward and 1 gear backwards +1 gear overdrive backwards.

When you are above 30MPH with such a monster and steer, shift, gas and break almost at the same time then you will know what it meas to concentrate on your driving.

OTOH, if you drove right into the sea, you could just turn on the pumps and go full gas in highest gear (10) and that pice of pansar would tug its way to shore on the other side.

For anyone who wants to try this, remember to check the drain plugs first, a friend of mine didn't do that and it doesn't float all that well when water is just drowning it, doesn't really matter that you have pumps at that stage either.

 

[manlymatt83]

I know how to drive stick, and I own one.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Redfraggle
I sold cars, and you'd be surprised at how many men cannot drive stick, so quit acting like all men just know how to drive stick. I can outdrive most men I know. In reality, everyone should learn to drive stick, just because you never know when you'll need to. It's really not that hard, but wow....some people really are awful at it.

Its not super hard, but I wouldn't call it easy. Once you've done it its like walking more or less, but its not like you just point to the clutch and know how it works...you have to get in there and stall it a few times.

And every clutch behaves a little differently it seems.

 

[recoil80]

I think I tried the automatic just once... my next car will have the automatic, because I'm tired to use the clutch in the traffic jam. Anyway I have fun with the manual transmission, especially when I drive through the contryside

 

[adlep]

This is a silly question to ask outside of US as 90% cars outside of the US have a regular non automated transmission.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: recoil80
I think I tried the automatic just once... my next car will have the automatic, because I'm tired to use the clutch in the traffic jam. Anyway I have fun with the manual transmission, especially when I drive through the contryside

My current car is an automatic, my old junker is a manual. The manual is fun for most of my driving, I actually like it. But once you get stuck in stop and go traffic the fun ends. I remember crawling up a hill in a snowstorm with a bunch of assholes for 45 minutes and my left leg cramping up and shaking as I worked the clutch. That doesn't happen all that often, but it makes a miserable situation super miserable when it does.

The only real reason I'd go for a manual over an auto is its cheaper to fix then an automatic and automatics seem to fail all the damn time.

 

[ConwayJim]

i don't know how to drive one properly, but always state i do. I will ruin your clutch and make it smoke like a pack of cigarettes!

 

[recoil80]

Originally posted by: adlep
This is a silly question to ask outside of US as 90% cars outside of the US have a regular non automated transmission.

yeah...
In Italy is quite unsual to ask for an automated transmission. It's always an optional, and is not so cheap.
Just big cars (I mean more than 2000ccs) now have auto as the default.
I think is just the same in Europe.

Maybe we are masochist

 

[Appledrop]

yeah, most cars in UK are manual it seems, but I just recently bought an auto, and I dont know if id go back - when im going over 90mph i like to have 2 hands on the wheel, lol

 

[nobody554]

Originally posted by: BeauJangles

Originally posted by: JMapleton
A manual is bane and useless unless it's on a sports car. People with manuals in their Honda Civics or Mazda 6s are just pointlessly being snobs about it thinking their car is some kind of sports car "ohh i need to feel the road" stfu please.

Uhhh... what about people that simply prefer driving a manual? Or do their preferences not count at all?

Or the part where you can get better performance out of your car with a manual?

 

[ggnl]

I learned when I was 18 on a '63 VW Microbus. My current car has an MT.

 

[meltdown75]

yes i can drive stick
no i do not own one

online car-p33n remains neutral for now?

 

[NinjaGnome]

first car was a manual and I will always have a motorcycle to ride. Gotta love the control a manual gives you

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Money
yeah, most cars in UK are manual it seems, but I just recently bought an auto, and I dont know if id go back - when im going over 90mph i like to have 2 hands on the wheel, lol

If you're going over 90 MPH you're usually in top gear anyway...

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Money
yeah, most cars in UK are manual it seems, but I just recently bought an auto, and I dont know if id go back - when im going over 90mph i like to have 2 hands on the wheel, lol

If you're going over 90 MPH you're usually in top gear anyway...

No you're not, you're just then shifting to 4th. In sports cars you'll still be in 3rd.

 

[TheVrolok]

I haven't driven manual in years, but I do understand how to, and I think I could do so again given a few minutes practice.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Every vehicle I've ever owned has been manual, the Mrs is a different story, though she did drive one for years before getting spoiled.

 

[Deviant Grasshopper]

I drive one, and it was fun when I was younger. I used to have fairly quick sporty cars and would zoom around all over the place.


Then I grew up, bought a house, got a different job 40 miles away in traffic, and realized that it just isn't worth the PITA.

Granted, 95% of the time I don't mind - but that 5% that I don't like it is absolutely miserable.


Once I pay off or sell my bike I'm going to get an older 5 series or first year bangle if they're cheap enough Auto. All of you POS auto hating kids can suck my measley little 2.5l motor'ed ass.



No really, after I got into fast bikes I completely lost interest in going fast on 4 wheels. There just isn't anything I could drive that would compare to the exhilaration from riding this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnRIxbID6HI

The youtube video sound quality really doesn't cut it either..

 

[Aquila76]

I learned to drive on a manual, now own an automatic, and lust for a manual in my next car (hopefully an '03 WRX come President's Day).

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Money
yeah, most cars in UK are manual it seems, but I just recently bought an auto, and I dont know if id go back - when im going over 90mph i like to have 2 hands on the wheel, lol

If you're going over 90 MPH you're usually in top gear anyway...

No you're not, you're just then shifting to 4th. In sports cars you'll still be in 3rd.

Here's a for you too cus I didn't know every car has the same gearing.