Poll: Escapist: Can you drive a Manual?
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I'm another Brit, so of course I can.
As for those saying it's harder to drive manually: I originally passed my test in 2009 and only drove once between that and getting my 1st car in August last year, and it didn't take me long at all to re-learn clutch control. I've been driving just less than a year and shifting gear is second nature to me. It takes me less than 2 seconds to shift gear, easily.
Also, how many auto drivers that think manual drivers are elitist are just feeling insecure about themselves?
As for those saying it's harder to drive manually: I originally passed my test in 2009 and only drove once between that and getting my 1st car in August last year, and it didn't take me long at all to re-learn clutch control. I've been driving just less than a year and shifting gear is second nature to me. It takes me less than 2 seconds to shift gear, easily.
Also, how many auto drivers that think manual drivers are elitist are just feeling insecure about themselves?
that's what the handbrake is forZakarath said:
ford did an advert for the puma based on the film if I remember right?shootthebandit said:Steve mcqueen is only like the coolest guy ever. He was the american guy in the great escape and he was in a film called Bullit where he drove he mustang through san fransicoVicarious Reality said:
my fave film quote of his was from a film whose name I cant remember sadly. But anyway, in the film the girl he had been with tells him she is pregnant, and after an awkward moment he says 'well, congratulations' before walking off.
he really did a good job of showing how much of a douchebag that character was.
I learned how to drive in a stick, and took my driving test in an automatic. It was an odd adjustment to make so suddenly.
i drive a grand caravan minivan, i think those things doesnt even come with a manual transmission. but most of the new cars i've tried were auto, but you could force the system to gear up and down if you wanted to.
i had a manual car once. for 12 hours. one fo my freind give me his dad old car, a 1985 rabbit diesel VW (we were in 2003) that havent been on the road at all for at least 3 years. he learn me how to drive manually, wich i had some trouble with, then i tried to come home with my new car, and the transmission fluid began to leak everywhere. it sums my manual experience...
i had a manual car once. for 12 hours. one fo my freind give me his dad old car, a 1985 rabbit diesel VW (we were in 2003) that havent been on the road at all for at least 3 years. he learn me how to drive manually, wich i had some trouble with, then i tried to come home with my new car, and the transmission fluid began to leak everywhere. it sums my manual experience...
I tried to learn. The thing is that my dad is a terrible teacher and I only have a 1986 suzuki samurai.
The thing is we still understand how the Samurai managed to work to this day.
The thing is we still understand how the Samurai managed to work to this day.
Driving Courses teach on manual gear cars. So, I've learned driving with manual.
However I hate it, I always prefer automatic gears.
However I hate it, I always prefer automatic gears.
I am from the UK too, so yes I can drive a manual. I don't trust these new age automatic mumbo jumbo people drive, they put me on edge and I feel like I'm doing something wrong whenever I have tried to drive one. I feel that there is a lot more control over a manual. I trust when I can feel the clutch of the car.
Manual all the way!
From the humble beginnings of my underpowered Jetta, up to anything else, the only exeption of things I drove that haven't had the gearlever, was a really HP happy Mercedes I had to drive for a night (600HP. O.O).
and once I talked to an engineer, why all those upper class limos barely have manual anymore, he just told me: you know from your first driving days, that false gearshifting, made the car a bit wobbly and shaky, down to engine failure.
if you do that with about 500 or more HP, it may easily happen, that the engine doesn't care, but the gearbox just gives in and crumbles under your car in a nice straight line to broom up. Or break the transmission axels if we're talking about tuned up cars.
Final thing: theres reason for Automatic, but it is just way out of use for me. Gimme manual and I'll be happy.
And yes: Prolly even on trucks with 16 gears (once I would be allowed to drive those).
From the humble beginnings of my underpowered Jetta, up to anything else, the only exeption of things I drove that haven't had the gearlever, was a really HP happy Mercedes I had to drive for a night (600HP. O.O).
and once I talked to an engineer, why all those upper class limos barely have manual anymore, he just told me: you know from your first driving days, that false gearshifting, made the car a bit wobbly and shaky, down to engine failure.
if you do that with about 500 or more HP, it may easily happen, that the engine doesn't care, but the gearbox just gives in and crumbles under your car in a nice straight line to broom up. Or break the transmission axels if we're talking about tuned up cars.
Final thing: theres reason for Automatic, but it is just way out of use for me. Gimme manual and I'll be happy.
And yes: Prolly even on trucks with 16 gears (once I would be allowed to drive those).
Well, since i am European: I learned on stick and 3 of my 4 cars so far has been manual.
(The other one was an automatic because it was first the car of my grandfather, who had a bum leg and couldn't shift)
Newer cars with automatic gearbox are way more numerous though - i can't afford newer cars.
(The other one was an automatic because it was first the car of my grandfather, who had a bum leg and couldn't shift)
Newer cars with automatic gearbox are way more numerous though - i can't afford newer cars.
In my country, your practice driving needs to be done with a manual car. Or, rather, it can be done with an automatic car, but then you get a "limited" license that only qualifies you for driving automatics. And that kinda sucks.
So, yes, I can drive manual.
So, yes, I can drive manual.
Yeah, I drive a manual, but I don't like it. Automatic is clearly superior in all the ways that matter to me, and I hope this is the last manual shift car I ever drive.
Of course. From my perspective, it goes without saying. Everyone here learns how to drive a manual, unless they have some sort of debilitation that prevents them from doing that (and I've never actually met anyone like that).
We have both manual and automatic cars in my family, and while I love driving my Audi with the automatic gearbox, I think it's legitimately silly to not know how to drive a manual car.
We have both manual and automatic cars in my family, and while I love driving my Audi with the automatic gearbox, I think it's legitimately silly to not know how to drive a manual car.