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Make your choice.

I'll start manual transmission for ever.

Make your choice. I'll start manual transmission for ever.

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Had both, don't have a preference.

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Really? I don't feel in control when I'm driving an automatic.

[–] • 2 pts

Yes really. Also used to have a 4-speed VW beetle (vintage), that was fun. But so are the automatics I have owned; also there are the shift-on-command manual-mode automatics

[–] • 3 pts

I need a clutch to feel normal while driving. The stiffer the better.

[–] • 3 pts

Have had several of both over the years. Once I preferred stick ... now I'd rather drive an automatic. My good car has the shift on command thing noted by germanshepard ... though I rarely, if ever use it. Maybe once or twice in snow/ice conditions.

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Give in the to manual side, you know you want too.

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I did my manual drive time with a bunch of English roadsters and a Mustang or two. Now I just prefer to put it in drive and enjoy the scenery. LOL

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You know you miss the feeling of hitting 6000 rpms and dropping it into second and hearing the tires chirp just a little.

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I've only ever driven automatic. My next car will be a manual, though.

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Do you already know how to drive one or will you be learning?

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I'll be learning. Used to drive old ass farm tractors with very touchy manuals, though, so I'm confident I'll pick it up quickly. Next car will most like be a beater, as well, so I won't be worried about tearing it up while I learn.

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Here is the best advice I can give you, its the same that was given to me when I learned at 13 years old. When you let the clutch out for the first time, its going to be a lot like your first time going into a women, you go real slow or its going to be over real fast.

[–] • 0 pt

Automatic FTW

Manual is fun if you are in areas with little traffic or not too hilly. But traffiic and especially traffic in hilly areas with manual? Fuck that!

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Even in hilly heavily trafficed areas, I will still all day long say manual FTW How are you going to drop it into 4th to do a passing run on the free way?

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All the automatics I've driven have built in overdrive so when you floor it, you go! Not sure if that is the correct term. Not really a car guy. Never had issues passing.

Have had issues of regretting and hating my manual transmission when inching up a hill in bumper to bumper traffic though.

I will concede that manuals are cheaper (and I think easier?) to fix than automatic. But automatic still worth it IMO.

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But a manual takes skill and finesse. Its the transmission of skill.

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Manual FTW.

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Automatic.

I'd like to know how to drive standard though

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Someday you’ll change your mind I’m sure of it.

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When I learn how to drive standard, I'm sure I will. I've heard that some find it to be better than automatic

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Automatic.

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I'm so sorry.

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I don't like having to move a stick every several seconds.

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several seconds?!?! I think you might be doing it wrong.