I've never driven one before.

 

Can you even reach the pedals?

 

He is a baby isn't he....:lol2:

 

Yelp I got my driver licence on a stick shift and had to parallel park on a hill. Learn to drive one on my dad's old farm truck. When we bought our son his first truck we made sure it was a stick. You never know when you may need to drive one.

He is a baby isn't he....:lol2:

 

Yelp I got my driver licence on a stick shift and had to parallel park on a hill. Learn to drive one on my dad's old farm truck. When we bought our son his first truck we made sure it was a stick. You never know when you may need to drive one.

Same reason my sons first truck was a stick.

 

Added plus to getting your kids a Stick car or Truck...you can't text when one hand is on the wheel and one is shifting.

Been a long while, but I drove a few cars in the late 60's. I drove a school bus for 4-5 years in the seventies while I was teaching and coaching. They were all manual. Probably haven't driven a stick in 35 years and really will be fine if I never do again. I always thought why do this when there is an automatic.

I don't know if this is true or not, but someone said that military vehicles are mostly if not all automatic now due to the fact that so many new recruits had trouble driving to old stuff with manual transmissions.

What are some Vehicles that should only be, "Manual" transmissions?

 

Jeep - Wrangler style

Mustang GT's

Vipers

any others?

I learned to drive a stick on a '78 Jeep CJ7. I've owned a couple of standards throughout the years, including a big '75 Ford F350 flatbed. The first Fire Dept. that I was on had nothing but manual shift equipment. I took my drivers test for them in a 7 speed.

Purchasing a vehicle with a manual transmission is like buying a house without air condition.

 

Quaint, but why?

 

A. Better gas mileage.

2. Better performance.

D. More speed from a smaller motor because of control of RPMs and torque.

I learned on 72 C10 with a 3 on the tree.

Why do the majority of cars in Europe have manual transmissions? - Quora

Why do the majority of cars in Europe have manual transmissions? - Quora

 

What I alluded to earlier, they dock you when you trade in a stick.

What I alluded to earlier, they dock you when you trade in a stick.

 

But you also pay less on the front side when you buy a stick.

What are some Vehicles that should only be, "Manual" transmissions?

 

Jeep - Wrangler style

Mustang GT's

Vipers

any others?

 

All sports cars.

 

Feels weird now driving auto, always reaching for the clutch pedal. I do like having control over the power instead of a machine.

 

Also neverminded it in traffic, guess I have in shape legs.

A. Better gas mileage.

2. Better performance.

D. More speed from a smaller motor because of control of RPMs and torque.

 

I would also add that you don't have to worry about the transmission going out to near the lengths you do with an automatic. Plus, if your standard shift won't start, you can pop the clutch and get it running.

The premise for asking my wife out the first time was to teach her to drive a 5 speed. She had made a comment that she didn't know how, so on our "first date" I taught her how.

 

I must be the "Clutch Whisperer" I had her driving a 5 speed in less than a 1/2 hour.

 

I tried to teach my now wife when we were engaged and it almost ended our engagement:)! I was the anti "Clutch Whisperer"...

Back in the mid 80s a family I used to carpool to school with was kind enough to sacrifice the clutch of their Toyota Celica :lol2:.... actually it went very well. Until I fell into a great deal on an automatic Toyota Tercel at age 23, my first two vehicles were standard shifts.

 

First car I ever owned myself was an automatic Tercel at about the same age. I loved that car at the time...