wtf why is everyone obsessed with stickshifts now?

[Looney]

Originally posted by: miri

Originally posted by: Looney
Because they lack real accomplishments in life, and think knowing how to drive manual is a big one.

uh, a lot of people drive stick shifts because of the lower price of vehicles with manuals, not because of your reason.

Good for you

I was answering why this forum is full of people who praise manual. I guess i should have phrased it better, so i will for your benefit.

Because they lack real accomplishments in life, and think knowing how to drive manual is a big one. Or they want to save money by not getting auto. Or they think manual is more fun. Or they think they'll save more gas. Or the car they bought was used and was only manual. Or auto's are against their religion.

 

[CraigRT]

Manual is just way more fun, I love my Altima with the 5 speed... just a blast.. I can't stand auto. More money to buy when you get a new car, and more to go wrong too. It's just a clear choice in my eyes.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Duddy
My Mazda3 has a Automatic/Sport Manual transmission and I only use the manual to race.

:laugh:

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: nateholtrop
It makes them feel cool when they drive a stickshift in their Corolla.

I drive a 92' corolla with stickshift. I'd say the stick made it a lot more worthy to drive or I would've dumped the POS a long time ago.
It's fairly fun to drive it with stuck, and old corollas aren't too slow either as they are very light. It can easily keep up with even my bro's 325ci from 0-40.

 

[JulesMaximus]

At one point everyone who knows how to drive a stick didn't know how to. You've got to start somewhere right?

<--First car was a stick.

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
At one point everyone who knows how to drive a stick didn't know how to. You've got to start somewhere right?

<--First car was a stick.

yeah same here, my mom bought my first car for around $1000 and gave me the keys. I had to teach myself.

 

[Hammerhead]

You obviously haven't seen the "Stick Shift Chick" video

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Learned driving on an old Mitsubishi Galant wagon. Manual + no power steering FTW!

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: wasssup
or was it always this way (and i was just too ignorant to notice)?

*EDIT* for the record, I drive stick and prefer it over auto, but I come across a LOT of people who want a stickshift or buy stickshifts and don't even know how to drive one...

um always been a must have a manual tranny type of person.. learned to drive in a POS 1970 Honda CIVIC with a 5 speed never looked back..
in an automatic car i feel bored..

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
At one point everyone who knows how to drive a stick didn't know how to. You've got to start somewhere right?

<--First car was a stick.

Agreed. Didn't even consider getting a slushbox when I bought my car last year. One of my criteria for the new car was it had to be a stick.

 

[DPmaster]

Been driving a stick since I was 16. It actually feels weird to me if I drive a car with an automatic transmission. I always want to step on the clutch pedal whenever I ride an auto.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Originally posted by: DPmaster
Been driving a stick since I was 16. It actually feels weird to me if I drive a car with an automatic transmission. I always want to step on the clutch pedal whenever I ride an auto.

Ain't that the truth
Although I had to drive an auto-tranny Volvo 240T for awhile. For something so heavy, damn can that thing move! :shocked:

 

[Tommouse]

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
At one point everyone who knows how to drive a stick didn't know how to. You've got to start somewhere right?

<--First car was a stick.

Agreed. Didn't even consider getting a slushbox when I bought my car last year. One of my criteria for the new car was it had to be a stick.

Same I have driving a stick since my first few months of driving. My first car that was "mine" was stick, and when I was looking for a new (to me) car recently, being manual was mandatory.

 

[Pepsi90919]

manual shift blows

 

[gigapet]

manual sucks.

 

[AdamSnow]

I love my 5spd, but when I'm downtown Toronto or something in rush hour, I sure wish I drove an auto...

Especially with the clutch and everything in the SRT-4... It's tiring!!

 

[Rubycon]

This brings up a funny discussion I had with someone a few weeks ago.

They compared computers with cars and said that the two are similar as the "enthusiast crowd" prefer inferior things - the manual gearbox and AMD processors. So I asked why is AMD inferior and they go on to tell me that (AMD) doesn't even have a 3.0GHz CPU yet and is light years behind Intel. I laughed so hard I actually snorted and (honestly) I RARELY do that. :laugh:

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: mugs
fivespeed girl

LL

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
This brings up a funny discussion I had with someone a few weeks ago.

They compared computers with cars and said that the two are similar as the "enthusiast crowd" prefer inferior things - the manual gearbox and AMD processors. So I asked why is AMD inferior and they go on to tell me that (AMD) doesn't even have a 3.0GHz CPU yet and is light years behind Intel. I laughed so hard I actually snorted and (honestly) I RARELY do that. :laugh:

haha nice...

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: mugs
fivespeed girl

explain?

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Ornery
You need it with tiny, one lung (sometimes helped along with forced induction), high revving, low torque engines.

I had a 400ci GTO with a 4spd, and loathed shifting all the time. Generally shifted from first to fourth as often as possible. That car would have been just fine with a 3spd Turbo-Hydromatic. That's the last manual I bought, and it's been decades since.

Cars have changed a lot since then bud.

MT's sucked back then

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
This brings up a funny discussion I had with someone a few weeks ago.

They compared computers with cars and said that the two are similar as the "enthusiast crowd" prefer inferior things - the manual gearbox and AMD processors. So I asked why is AMD inferior and they go on to tell me that (AMD) doesn't even have a 3.0GHz CPU yet and is light years behind Intel. I laughed so hard I actually snorted and (honestly) I RARELY do that. :laugh:

Well, to be fair, when I started becoming a computer "enthusaist", the hot chip was a Celeron 300A. AMD was who back then? I guess if I had remained an enthusiast I would have transitioned to AMD but that never happened.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Well, to be fair, when I started becoming a computer "enthusaist", the hot chip was a Celeron 300A. AMD was who back then? I guess if I had remained an enthusiast I would have transitioned to AMD but that never happened.

In the early 90's AMD's 386 DX40 was kicking majorly! The 486DX4 120 was also very good and much cheaper than the Pentium 90 that it could match - outside of floating point obviously.

Their K5's were not so great, the K6 was good but too late and from there forward they just kept going and INTC was really embarassed coming out with the Willies. :laugh:

It's been a long drawn out battle that looks like it's going to heat up again with their Conrads.

Celeron 300A's were nice too. Back in 1998 when a P4 400 was what $600+ you could buy a 300A celly and o/c most of 'em to 450/466 stock and the better ones would do 504. Percentage-wise that was a crazy o/c and despite the smaller 128 KB L2 it was full speed so it worked well against the halfspeed off die cache of the SECC PII's that were MUCH more $$$.

Shame on you for mentioning five speed girl! :frown:

 

[miri]

What is this fivespeed girl people mention?

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: miri
What is this fivespeed girl people mention?

lol @ the n00b