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Your current car... manual or auto?

Does your current car have a manual or automatic transmission?

  • Automatic

  • Manual

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Have owned 3 cars, and all 3 have been manual. Sold the first, still have a 5MT Insight and F150.
 
Drove a manual for my entire life. Switched to automatics in 2004. Much better than they were back in the day. IMO better than a manual.
 
The cars I own are manual, both the "old" Lotus, and the Swift Sport I'm trying to sell.
But the company car I drive....automatic diesel 1 series 🙁

I'm not sure it's the most depressing car I've ever driven, but only because I drove late 90's and early 2000s Caravans with the Euro spec Diesel engines.

But this particular 1 series is probably more depressing, because it pretends to be sporty and isn't, it pretends to be premium, but only gets the "expensive" part right, and it's neither comfortable, nor engaging. It even looks properly ugly, and sad about it. Must be, because it's an auto (I also drove the same car with a manual, and that was slightly better).

Left-foot-braking on the other hand is what makes two-pedal cars a bit safer. Sadly in this 1 series the pedals are so awkwardly installed, that my hips start hurting pretty soon, if I keep my left foot in a ready-to-brake position...
 
SMG.

The next car I get will have a clutch pedal.

Koing
 
Auto on the daily drivers in usually heavy traffic.

I learned to drive on a manual to begin with and have had many, but if it isn't a truck/sports car I wouldn't bother with a manual these days.

Even the little Mazda 3 2.3 Hatch we have is a dual gate 5 speed auto/pseudo manual, I think I've messed with it maybe 3 or 4 times just playing around and just stick it back in auto 99.9% of the time.
 
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Auto. For a daily driver I'd prefer that.

My summer toy is currently an auto too, but eventually I plan on a total powertrain swap including going to a manual.
 
Jeep Wrangler (2014) with a 6-speed manual. But it might be the last one I own. Darn left knee, on occasion, reminds me that I've been milking it for the past 25 years, and tells me I'd better not get stuck in stop & go traffic that day! :\
 
Auto. I've had several manuals over the years but will be auto for the foreseeable future. Down the road when I can fit a sports car into the budget I will get another stick but for daily drivers it will be auto.
 
Considering something like 95-98% of cars sold are automatic, I have a suspicion that AT Garage is not representative of the general population. :hmm:
 
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