Who else here is sad to see that the manual transmission is being weeded out of cars these days.
I was sorry to see the brights switch taken away from my left foot. Oh and ashtrays too. Where the hell did they go.
But seriously, I have to pay extra to get cars that are automatic transmission. Sure most people, in the USA at least, drive automatic, but what makes you say the manual is being weeded out? I know a number of people who drive manual.
I’d much rather have a manual than an auto any day. Unfortunately my stang is auto, irony is hell!
I drive auto.
I want to drive standard.
So I have the half-breed of one of those tiptronic things that is nothing more than playing a videogame but in real life.
I still want to drive standard.
Everyone should try a manual.
One of the first “cheap kid cars” my parents got us was a early '70’s Toyota HiLux pickup, that was my first manual.
My first car was a 1971 Toyota Corolla 4 sp. manual. I’ve also had a 1967 Dodge Van with 3 on the tree, 1978 Toyota Pickup and 1980 Int’l Scout II, both with 4 on the floor.
Had been clutchless since selling the Scout until about a month ago: Bought a 2007 Toyota Corolla with 5 speed and am having a gas!
Speak for yourself, manual transmission is still in the majority in the UK.
I drive manual - KH20 
Yes but I dont want to have to go to the UK to get a nice car that has a manual transmission. The majority of the manuals over here are trucks, sports cars, and cheap small economy cars. I’d love to have a 6sp manual in a minivan with a 400+ hp engine. 
yes. i hate driving auto. it is so boring
Is manual going some where?
The thing I hate about driving automatic is when I take a freeway exit ramp and step on the brake like it’s a clutch pedal. 
I dunno why people are always hating on automatic. It may not be as fun or whatever but it’s plenty reliable and it works fine.
I guess it’s cause I’m one of those “point a to point b is enough” people.
Thank you, I was begining to think I was weird because I think automatic is better.
Nick: I don’t necessarily think it’s “better”…I just don’t get why people hate it, especially when they use the “it’s boring” reason. Who cares? It’s a car, you just need it to get from here to there.
Oh no it isn’t!!!(infinitly long ongoing of explanation points that only prove to lessen my point)!!!
Okay, fine. I like manual better. I don’t care what anyone else thinks.
I did that in the only automatic I have ever driven, a hire car from work… drove out of the car park, tried to change gear going downhill, pushed leftmost pedal to floor… owwww!
They need some kind of strap so you can fasten your left foot to the floor, to stop it flooring the brake pedal all the time…
I did that very thing the first time I drove our Yukon after about a week using the clutch in the new car. Scared the **** out of the kids.
[brag]I learned/am learning to drive stick in a BMW Z4.[/brag]
I wish everyone drove a standard. I’m sick and ****ing tired of people edging up to within a few inches of my bumper at a red light. It’s almost like these assholes think that by edging forward, the light changes faster. If starting out actually required some modicum of effort, people might stop acting like mentally challenged monkeys while at a stop light.
/rant
I love stick, though. Not only is it more fun than an automatic, it’s more practical. You save a few hundred when you buy the car, and then you save some on brakes.
Not to mention, quick acceleration is a lot more fun in a standard.
I’ve had 4 manual transmission cars in my 30+ years of driving. A 77 Celica, 87 Mitsubishi Monteiro, a 92 Ford Explorer and my favorite was a 1982 Mazda RX-7. It was a real fun car to drive. Fast cornering and on ramps were my favorite things to do while driving this vehicle, that handled like a go cart.
The times that I hated driving a stick was when I was in stop and go traffic. Continually having to push the clutch in then slowly letting it out to creap forward in heavy traffic got old real fast. After 15-20 minutes of this my left leg would be killing me and I would start to get creative by using my right leg to push the clutch pedal down. Stop and go traffic in the snow was a little easier because I could pop the clutch with out it stalling.
When I finally purchased my current automatic car, I didn’t want anything to do with another vehicle that required my left leg to do so much work.
my dad has a stick scion xb and i love driving it