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Yeah traded my auto for a shittier stick car at 18 and haven't looked back going on 20 years. It does suck in very heavy traffic (especially my last car when it had a heavy ass clutch) but that doesn't come up for me much these days and it never really stopped me anyhow (I just let the gap grow a bit before pulling up if I'm tired/trying to save the clutch). I have the wife's car if I sprain my ankle or something.
Yeah even in sports cars these days it's hard to get a 6-speed manual. I hate the single clutch paddles, dual clutch I'm sure I would like but it's not the same. The used market has some fun stuff these days though. Got me a RWD manual V8 that I intend to hold onto as long as I can.
Nothing can replace the regular clutch followed by the standard shifter 5-6 speeds. It so simple yet so fun. I think Mustang, Corvettes, and "work trucks" are the american cars that offer a stick shift. The japanese cars in the late 90s early 2000s were still pretty good about offering sticks and a few german cars like bmw. I keep holding out hope that a younger generation will rediscover this lost art and possibly reset the demand for them. But, younger drivers today are lazy as fuck and need to focus on instagraming stupid shit while they drive.
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