If you can drive like they do in car ads it's fun, but when you're commuting into NYC every day, it gets kind of old. I love a stick, but you got to live somewhere where you can have fun with it.Thom said:Manual Is More Fun![]()
kenshi said:
If you can drive like they do in car ads it's fun, but when you're commuting into NYC every day, it gets kind of old. I love a stick, but you got to live somewhere where you can have fun with it.
but you don't have to worry about grinding your gears or missing a shift...SuprStyl said:Not to mention automatic cars are slower, not by much, but still slower because of the slipage...
you dont have to worry about grinding gears if you know how to drive a M/T. If you get good with a m/t you will never go back to an auto, sure i grind gears (like some times it doesnt want to go into reverse and i have to double clutch it on a truck). I dont even really notice shifting anymore after 5 years of a five speed. I do notice that my mother drives an automatic, and so does my grandma, and just about any WOMAN, get it?? That is why they dont sell m/t mini vans, but they sell the mustang cobra SVTs in only M/Ts...victor said:
but you don't have to worry about grinding your gears or missing a shift...
I disagree... in 9 yrs driving stick every so often I would grind a gear or even stall trying to burn out... everyone does it time to time and saying you don't is a bullshit faced lie. I like the stick but I chose an Auto because I wanted the wife to drive it because this was going to be our larger car thus the main family transporter when we had kids...SuprStyl said:
you dont have to worry about grinding gears if you know how to drive a M/T. If you get good with a m/t you will never go back to an auto, sure i grind gears (like some times it doesnt want to go into reverse and i have to double clutch it on a truck). I dont even really notice shifting anymore after 5 years of a five speed. I do notice that my mother drives an automatic, and so does my grandma, and just about any WOMAN, get it?? That is why they dont sell m/t mini vans, but they sell the mustang cobra SVTs in only M/Ts...
I agree 100%. I actually prefer my 5-spd even in bumper-to-bumper, stop and go traffic. The clutch is so light in the Alty that it's no effort whatsoever. Plus I don't have to constantly keep my foot on the brake when I'm sitting still in traffic or at a light.Abc187 said:I've been driving a manual since the day I got my license, I can't go back...in traffic I hardly notice it, but when I accel (and downshift) I feel like I have so much more control
I can no longer drive an automatic, I have no control over what I'm doing....