Poll: Manual or Automatic?

[Aur0ra145]

Manual, always have always will.

 

[z121231211]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

 

[Varchld]

Manual for my car and semi-automatic for my rifle.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

Automatic is far more convenient when I'm talking on my cell phone, watching a DVD, shaving, and plugging directions into my GPS while driving.

I'm just kidding. I don't shave.

 

[Blackadder51]

I learnt on manual but bought a auto...

 

[Grampy_bone]

Sticks impress chicks...

 

[BoxCutter]

M5 baby

 

[neo34]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

 

[BaronXS]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

I raise you my DeLorean DMC-12 with variable transmission. Great for those days when it's rush hour, and I just switch it to auto, the turn it to manual on those empty roads.

 

[neo34]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

I raise you my DeLorean DMC-12 with variable transmission. Great for those days when it's rush hour, and I just switch it to auto, the turn it to manual on those empty roads.

Well touche baron, its not very often I find someone who has a car that is more rare (rarer?) than mine but a DeLorean with variable transmission? I can't say I have ever heard of such a thing. Is it like the auto-sticks that i see in some cars now, where you switch over and just move the stick up or down or is it a legit stick?

 

[SirJewBagel]

Manual 5-speed. I can't drive automatic any more. I'm to tempted to move the shifting nob all different ways.

I want my next car to be a 6 speed. Mainly for freeway purposes.

I drive a 06' Mazda '3'

 

[Herb sewell]

I am complete garbage at driving manual. Only time I really tried I smashed thru a 2X4 in an intersection.

 

[The Political Gamer]

I fail at driving stick.

 

[BaronXS]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

I raise you my DeLorean DMC-12 with variable transmission. Great for those days when it's rush hour, and I just switch it to auto, the turn it to manual on those empty roads.

Well touche baron, its not very often I find someone who has a car that is more rare (rarer?) than mine but a DeLorean with variable transmission? I can't say I have ever heard of such a thing. Is it like the auto-sticks that i see in some cars now, where you switch over and just move the stick up or down or is it a legit stick?

It's a new build DeLorean, so it's chassis is modified for variable transmission. The way it works is that you push the shifter into the gearbox for automatic, and pull it out manual. It has a button on the side to make sure you don't push it down by accident.

 

[BaronXS]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

I raise you my DeLorean DMC-12 with variable transmission. Great for those days when it's rush hour, and I just switch it to auto, the turn it to manual on those empty roads.

Well touche baron, its not very often I find someone who has a car that is more rare (rarer?) than mine but a DeLorean with variable transmission? I can't say I have ever heard of such a thing. Is it like the auto-sticks that i see in some cars now, where you switch over and just move the stick up or down or is it a legit stick?

It's a new build DeLorean, so it's chassis is modified for variable transmission. The way it works is that you push the shifter into the gearbox for automatic, and pull it out manual. It has a button on the side to make sure you don't push it down by accident.

pics plz lol

I would, if I had a digital camera.

 

[smokeybearsb]

Do you drive a manual/standard transmission or an automatic? If both, which do you prefer?

I drive standard, just because it makes you feel as if you have more control over the car.

I don't drive ( don't have a driver's license), yet can drive both. Stick shift is fun, I might like driving it sometimes; other times it would be convenient not to have to fuck with the gear shift.

 

[neo34]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

My by far favorite feature of my supra is the TEMS switch (toyota electronic modulated suspension). Essentially, tuned correctly on both settings, with the press of a button i can go from drift ready to race ready suspension. Does your MR2 have that? Although, I would imagine that with a car as short as the MR2, it wouldn't be necessary.

I definitely dont have TEMS, never heard of that either, but it does sound pretty damn fun. My car just depends on who is driving it, so for me that means it is always drift ready I would love to take it out on a short rally track or something like that one day, but I was recently rear ended, so I have to take it slow and make sure there was no lasting damage to the car. My dad and I checked it out, and it has ran fine ever since the accident (and some work on the rear calipers, damn pistons froze up on both sides)but I want to be careful. Plus we have to pay for college somehow, so the car is on hold for about... a decade or so

 

[duchaked]

I learned with the standard automatic
maybe one day I'll try manual if I ever have time to

 

[Graustein]

I don't know about anywhere else, but over here you're not allowed to drive a manual unless you have a license for a manual. However, a manual license does allow you to drive an automatic.

I'm learning to drive both a manual and an automatic. I prefer the manual, it gives me a feeling of greater control. Not only that, but by learning both I can drive either in an emergency. If I only have an automatic license, need to drive and have only a manual available, I'm fucked.

 

[neo34]

I definitely dont have TEMS, never heard of that either, but it does sound pretty damn fun. My car just depends on who is driving it, so for me that means it is always drift ready I would love to take it out on a short rally track or something like that one day, but I was recently rear ended, so I have to take it slow and make sure there was no lasting damage to the car. My dad and I checked it out, and it has ran fine ever since the accident (and some work on the rear calipers, damn pistons froze up on both sides)but I want to be careful. Plus we have to pay for college somehow, so the car is on hold for about... a decade or so

Heh, my Supra is slowly getting back together as well. It was a once in a lifetime find, so I couldn't complain about brakes needing nearly a complete overhaul, the A/C being out, the fact that I was handed 3 spare wheels and tires, or the fact that its primer black. engine wise, it runs like it just came off the showroom floor, which is what i was really looking for

I lucked out on Ebay, and the thing still runs like a champ and is a shade under 100,000 miles, so I figured I would hold onto it. It looks pretty ugly, but its still as much fun as ever. Plus, this way I don't have to worry about it getting messed up cuz it already is. And thats a hell of a lot of work, Kudos sir. I probably put in about half of that, a lot of which was body work. Not only was that a pain in the ass, it was completely pointless now that my quarter panel looks like an acordian