Can you drive a stick shift?

[=CrimsoN=]

Be honest. How many of you are true drivers?
I can drive stick, but actually prefer auto because im lazy

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Rei probably knows whom I'm referring to.
But lets keep it a secret.

[AbedsBrother]

In Soviet Russia, transmission shifts you!

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Comrade✮Red eredeti hozzászólása:

Rei- eredeti hozzászólása:

i dont drive and i dont wanna drive
i was taught to drive stick though a few times by some close people

why u no drive?

cuz its unappealing to me and i dont seem to like it...

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DarkCrystalMethod eredeti hozzászólása:

Rei probably knows whom I'm referring to.
But lets keep it a secret.

(´• ᴗ •̥`✿)

[Chilled Nomi]

Yes. I was taught Stick Shift and had stick shift cars before ever getting an automatic and even then I still usually have my hand close to the stick by instinct.

[John Doe]

I find manual to be a thing of past personally, and no, it doesn't make you shift faster than a GOOD automatic. A 03 M3 SMG transmission can swap gears 3 times faster than a human can on that car's manual equivalent. It's tested and proven that modern sport-oriented auto transmissions can swap gears REALLY fast. This applies to the DSG on my 2011 A4 quattro, it has two clutches and you barely feel the switches.

I got my driver's license on a manual Juke, but I did have difficulties with the stick shift on that car, in fact I pretty much forgot how to do it after using auto in every once in a long while (I don't drive often).

As for safety controls like TCS, they're there to save your life when the steering wheel goes out of your control and such. They don't put them there for no reason.

[[e-mail]]

Yes. You also get the benefit of it being a car theft deterrent in North America

[=CrimsoN=]

Zalinto eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes. You also get the benefit of it being a car theft deterrent in North America

lol I know you're joking, but tbh if someone is good enough to steal a car (better yet, hotwire), I'd think they'd be able to drive stick.

I know you're joking, but some people seriously do consider "driving stick" to be a theft detriment.

[R.A.T. Army *MST3K*]

Nope. I don't race, drive a large vehicle or work construction. So I have no need to.

[=CrimsoN=]

John Doe eredeti hozzászólása:

I find manual to be a thing of past personally, and no, it doesn't make you shift faster than a GOOD automatic. A 03 M3 SMG transmission can swap gears 3 times faster than a human can on that car's manual equivalent. It's tested and proven that modern sport-oriented auto transmissions can swap gears REALLY fast. This applies to the DSG on my 2011 A4 quattro, it has two clutches and you barely feel the switches.

I got my driver's license on a manual Juke, but I did have difficulties with the stick shift on that car, in fact I pretty much forgot how to do it after using auto in every once in a long while (I don't drive often).

As for safety controls like TCS, they're there to save your life when the steering wheel goes out of your control and such. They don't put them there for no reason.

You're in Turkey. So I imagine that you guys don't get much of any kind of snow storms. Manual transmissions are a god send in the snow. Especially if your car is RWD. I find it near impossible to drive an RWD car in the snow if it is automatic. As in "guess Im not going anywhere today" if its snowing lol

[John Doe]

Comrade✮Red eredeti hozzászólása:

You're in Turkey. So I imagine that you guys don't get much of any kind of snow storms. Manual transmissions are a god send in the snow. Especially if your car is RWD. I find it near impossible to drive and RWD car in the snow if it is automatic. As in "guess Im not going anywhere today" if its snowing lol

Actually, that has more to do with the car being RWD than anything else. You want AWD in the snow and after last year's snow (we had some a year ago), I'm NOT planning to take our car to snow again because it's close to the ground and the snow completely hits the plastic cover that protects the stuff underneath the car.

With a "good" auto car, you can swap gears yourself any time. We don't have paddle shifters in our car however it does have a manual mode that you can up and downshift using the shifter stick. My dad does that in traffic to keep it in low gear, I don't use it though, because it already does "rev matching" in sport mode when I want the performance, aka shifting at the max torque required RPMs it needs to achieve utmost speed.

[theHouleigan]

I learned to drive a manual car by learning how to ride a motorcycle. I have a commercial licence as well and I got that by driving a rig (18 speed)

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

yes.. though i do not have great driving skills...

[UNSTOPPABLE ALBOMENTUM]

I can't drive either.

Having ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hands and wrists is great

[C4Warr10r]

Hell, yeah! If you can't drive a stick, stop fooling yourself into thinking you can drive. How are you going to drive if you can't master a third pedal and a little clutch feedback? At least try to remember to use your blinkers, a task beyond most "drivers."

I very much prefer manual transmission, partially because of that clutch feedback. Driving well, for me, is about being able to feel the vehicle. You know exactly where the wheels and bumpers are at all times, the capacity for acceleration, the sponginess of the brakes, even the vibration of the engine so you can get a sense of precisely what the vehicle is doing. Automatic doesn't help that.

Yours truly is so bad about this that I won't even use cruise control. Ever. Doesn't matter if I'm driving a thousand miles, I will not touch it. I prefer my foot on the accelerator so I can have control at all times.

Am I a good driver? Good enough that I've never had a traffic accident that was my fault, and only one speeding ticket despite the fact that I speed all the time. Good enough that I can back an M-198 howitzer through a military checkpoint without hitting anything Good enough to drive with a 13-degree green tinted field of "enhanced" vision with no lights and no depth perception at night. Good enough that I can train drivers who were praised by another company of Marines as "the best drivers they ever had" when we were just an attachment to their unit. They sold out their own motor-T guys for us. So I'm that good, however good that is.