You don't have to drive stick...
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Only thing I drive is OP's mom wild with pleasure.
Just get an auto with paddle shifters, best of both worlds without having to feel like you’re operating Victorian era machinery. Modern auto boxes change faster than you can, and give better acceleration and economy.
I love driving and passed my test in a manual. I wouldn’t go back now.
No thanks. I like a manual gearbox because it's fun, I feel in control. I don't want to rely on electronics for something less fun. I don't care if automatics are now faster, or if paddles are faster. They're not as fun.
I thought paddles would be cool. My first 335i was a dct and I eventually sold it for a real manual 335i. It's really gonna suck when manual is truly gone :(
6mt 335 gang unite. I love mine.
My father in law decided randomly one day I was going to learn to drive manual. So he started up the pickup truck, and said "it's easy to get started going down hill" as he demonstrated rolling down a steep hill. Then he u-turned, parked the truck at the bottom of that steep hill, turned off the engine got out and said "your turn". Dick.
Lol volkswagen autostart
Slows down for speed bump.
Engine turns off.
Wait this happens?? Lmao
Yeah. Know problem in my polo. Have to turn stopstart each time you start the car
Autostart and lane assist are turned off in my car.
🤮 So glad my stop-start has been broken on my Hyundai for years now, everything else works though
I feel like learning manual is easy if you already know how to drive. My newest car is a stick shift and I just started driving it. Took like a month to be comfortable, but I was able to drive it and get from point a to point b without being good at it. Really just first gear that's annoying.
My ex tried to teach me to drive stick on the way home from urgent care.. my urgent care. Because it was convenient for him at that time. He refused to teach me several times before then because it was inconvenient. (why yes, I did leave him decades ago over abuse, thanks for asking! Tho it was not the specific thing)
I don’t care if manual is superior in some irrelevant way; I refuse to learn now due to trauma. Pretty sure I looked just like this picture.
Different technology, different pros/cons. You don't need to learn it in the same way you don't need to learn to calculate the sheer force of a raindrop on a window: you just don't need to.
Learning manual is one of those things that requires some understanding of what's going on, a lot of time, and patience. It's a feel thing, but you need context. After that, it's muscle memory - and context.
Honestly, most people do all parts of it wrong. So don't feel bad.
Meh, stick is simpler so if anything goes wrong it's easy to fix or less things to break. The only other reason is that it forces you to pay attention to your driving, so, if your into cars, it's more enjoyable to go for a drive.
Automatic is superior, especially now. You aren't missing much.
Thing is, it's not superior in any way, quite the opposite. Maybe things were different decades ago.
Though I drive an automatic now, I do still feel like manual transmission gives you a little bit more control. I miss being able to use the clutch in the friction zone for fine control at low speeds or even reversing. Plus I miss being able to downshift at higher speeds for a bit more torque. The last one is achievable by just pressing the accelerator to make the automatic shifter understand what I want to do, or by using it's manual override but that feels less natural to me for some reason.
Just get an automatic
laughs in automatic
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