As far as city driving, you get used to it and your left leg gets much stronger than the right very fast - Only excercise I get (j/k). As far as cellphones, if you're smart, you don't. If you're my cousin, you steer with your knees/right hand in between gears while swerving wildly on the road, ignoring all signs and medians. Especially medians.
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As far as city driving, you get used to it and your left leg gets much stronger than the right very fast - Only excercise I get (j/k). As far as cellphones, if you're smart, you don't. If you're my cousin, you steer with your knees/right hand in between gears while swerving wildly on the road, ignoring all signs and medians. Especially medians.
forrestroche
Senior member
Mine: 1992 Citroën AX
AbAbber2k
Diamond Member
I drove an automatic until I was 20, bought a new car, manual, and learned on it. I love it, but I think unless my next car is a really nice ride, i'll just go with an automatic. They're nice, but really, if i'm just commuting, an automatic is better imho. Now if you're gonna buy something fast and sexy... gotta go manual.
The Pentium Guy
Diamond Member
Hmm. Then I vote bluetooth.
Wow do you have a stick up your ass about this...
You don't think most people who "know how to drive" a stick have or had a manual transmission car that they drove regularly? It seems a little odd to say that half of the people who claim to know how to drive are saying that based off of driving their buddy's car once or something.
newbiepcuser
Diamond Member
Had to drive stick, it was the cheaper solution back then.
83 Celica, no power steering and then onto 95 Tacoma. Switched over to automatic on the next car. Can't say I miss manual, esp during Orange County or LA traffic.
83 Celica, no power steering and then onto 95 Tacoma. Switched over to automatic on the next car. Can't say I miss manual, esp during Orange County or LA traffic.
Back in the day I had a '65 mustang. Ran the crap out of that car. Power shifted it once too many times and broke the shifter mount out of the tailshaft. Bought and aftermarket shifter that had a different mounting pattern, found I had to enlarge the shift hole, since it wasn't offset for a mustang. Cut the hole and then found I had to modify the x-member. F that. Got an old work glove and kept it beside the shifter hole.
Driving it went something like this: Grab top rod and push it forward. 1st gear. Pull the rod back to 2nd gear. Push the rod 1/2 way back, to neutral, drop that rod and pick up the bottom rod, push it forward, 3rd gear. Pull that rod all the way back, 4th gear.
Won a few street races with it like that. Grabbin' 3rd was a pain, tho.
Driving it went something like this: Grab top rod and push it forward. 1st gear. Pull the rod back to 2nd gear. Push the rod 1/2 way back, to neutral, drop that rod and pick up the bottom rod, push it forward, 3rd gear. Pull that rod all the way back, 4th gear.
Won a few street races with it like that. Grabbin' 3rd was a pain, tho.
Concillian
Diamond Member
I would tend to agree.
Sure, a WRX is no harder to make work than a Civic, but to be SMOOTH, it's more challenging.
The stock flywheel is pretty heavy, and requires longer shifting to be smooth than your typical honda. If you just slam and jam it, you slam all 5 drive shafts and get this nice THUD. I've met plenty who think this thud is normal for an AWD car, and drive their car like that everyday... makes me relize how people have blown so many WRX transmissions.
Almost at 90k now, and almost time to change out the clutch. I can't wait to do that and get a lighter flywheel in there and a short shifter. I think it will make the WRX significantly easier to drive smooth.
Took me several months to make the adjustment from my Integra to my WRX transmission. Didn't help that I couldn't really drive all that well when I had the Integra. Of course I thought I drove well, but I was young and quite clueless at that time.
OvErHeAtInG
Senior member
Rock! I also learned on an acquaintance's festiva, who wanted to sell it... I was "test driving" it 🙂 Then I got an 87 VW Fox - basically learned on that thing. Four speed baby, with German-style reverse.
Now I have a brand new ITR tranny in my 92 gs-r... mmm... my stick has tight gears... (there must be some way I can make that sound off-color)
quakefiend420
Lifer
yup...i drive one daily 🙂
win32asmguy
Senior member
I learned to drive on my 1969 MG Midget. Only thing "automatic" about that car was systematic failures of its electrical system.
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