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how many people know how to drive manual?

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Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
This thread needs more pole. I don't really know how to drive one, although a buddy tried to teach me on his jeep. Eventually I got it into 2nd gear, though!
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this is ATOT, i don't think you can get much more pole than that.
 
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
My first new car, 05 mini cooper, was a stick and I did not know how to drive it off the lot. Mom had to help me get it home, but I took it from there.
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Your mom loves her daughter!
 
Originally posted by: spaceman
Originally posted by: Finalnight
Always wanted to learn but didn't have much access to one when I was learning to drive.
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are you learning to drive.
but you aint got wings?
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I had pretty much the same problem. I would love if my dad had taught me to drive stick, but we haven't had a manual since I was a toddler. Somehow I think he would like a manual, too.
 
Own/Drive, CA. Went to 6 Honda dealerships to find a 2008 Honda Civic with a 5-speed. 'Standard' is no longer standard anymore. Lazy automatic drivers....
 
I drove a manual civic for about 6 months... Could never fully figure out the clutch/downshifting. Always went to neutral (bad habit).
 
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
My first new car, 05 mini cooper, was a stick and I did not know how to drive it off the lot. Mom had to help me get it home, but I took it from there.
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Your mom loves her daughter!
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lol







(check mxyzptlk's profile)
 
Originally posted by: dbk
I drove a manual civic for about 6 months... Could never fully figure out the clutch/downshifting. Always went to neutral (bad habit).
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This is not a bad habit. For 5 years of driving my Mazda6i manual, I've always went to neutral and almost never downshifted. I see downshifting as pointless. If I'm going to stop, I put it in neutral and come to a stop. Why shift 5 times to get to stop?

If I want to lower my speed, I just apply brake and proceed to re-engage to appropriate gear, matching the engine.

No problems unless I'm missing something which I highly doubt.
 
Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
Originally posted by: dbk
I drove a manual civic for about 6 months... Could never fully figure out the clutch/downshifting. Always went to neutral (bad habit).
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This is not a bad habit. For 5 years of driving my Mazda6i manual, I've always went to neutral and almost never downshifted. I see downshifting as pointless. If I'm going to stop, I put it in neutral and come to a stop. Why shift 5 times to get to stop?

If I want to lower my speed, I just apply brake and proceed to re-engage to appropriate gear, matching the engine.

No problems unless I'm missing something which I highly doubt.
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uh...most the time, you want to hold the gear until you're close to stopping.

placing all the heat of stopping on the brakes is hard on the brakes. let the engine do some of it.

(that means from freeway speeds, i hold 5th (overdrive) till around 25 mph, then go to neutral.)



and the point of downshifting while not slowing down is to get to a gear with more torque.... useful for going up hills and passing and whatnot.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
I'd say around 50%, or exactly the number of licensed males in the country.
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My wife taught me to drive stick. She just turned 29 this past week.
 
Originally posted by: skyking
Originally posted by: Squisher
We had a manual Chevy II Nova in Driver's ED (circa '72).
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on the tree or on the floor?
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I remember the first time someone told me to drive on the tree. He said get in and try to drive it. I didn't even know how to get it into first until he showed me where everything was.

Learned on a 70 Bug
Current srt4 is obviousy stick
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
I just did something I don't often do anymore; I LOGGED IN. JUST to post this reply.

Are you kidding me? Not only are you admitting you don't know how to drive a stick (set your Mancard on fire now), but you're asking "Who can drive a stick?"

You're like a typical, needy woman, dude. "Ooooh! Here's this (bug to be squashed)/(screw to be tightened)/(doorknob that twists the OTHER WAY)...how will I ever survive?"

:roll:

I hate to break it to you, spaceman; your Mancard has obviously expired.

AND nobody better give me any shit about "Oh, in the US, manual transmissions only account for XY% of total new car sales vs. Blah-my-ass-I-can-do-math-as%automatic transmissions..."

If you can't drive a stick, you have have no dick. That about sums it up.
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damn, what crawled up your panties and gave you cancer?

<--know, but don't own.
(used to won manual)
 
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