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Automotive News & Views The Future Of The Manual Transmission
5809 messages, Last post on Dec 03, 2009 at 12:30 PM
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Replying to: ruking1 (Dec 05, 2008 7:48 am) Here, here! I drove the coast highway down the southern 50% of Oregon last October in my (then) new 2008 Outback, loaded to the gills with family and cargo (including about 150# on the roof). It was a wonderful drive, even if the car was disappointingly top-heavy at the time. We headed to central Oregon by way of highway 101 across extreme northern California. That road was fantastic as well. |
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Replying to: shipo (Dec 05, 2008 4:57 am) I will agree, though, that automatics are easier to sell as the audience is larger. Manuals do not necessarily demand less of a premium (sometimes the contrary since there are *far* less on the "slightly used" market), but they can take quite a bit longer to unload. |
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I think each person here should teach as many people as they can how to drive stick. I taught my wife and my brother. I tried with my sister but she wasn't interested, and you can't teach a person who doesn't care to learn. Both my kids will learn, that's for sure. So let's all make it our duty to teach at least a few people how to drive stick.
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Replying to: ateixeira (Dec 05, 2008 12:00 pm)  All 3 became totally proficient after a few short sessions however. All 3 already knew how to drive - they learned and tested on automatics. When I learned to drive, I learned on a stick, so I learned driving and the manual shifter at the same time.
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Replying to: nippononly (Dec 05, 2008 1:32 pm) 
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Replying to: ateixeira (Dec 05, 2008 1:34 pm) If you learn to drive on an automatic and then learn stick later, are you less likely to be a life-long devotee of the third pedal? |
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Replying to: nippononly (Dec 05, 2008 1:50 pm) It's the owning.... If a stick isn't your daily driver by the time you are 21, I doubt you'll ever buy one... No matter what you learned on..
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Replying to: kyfdx (Dec 05, 2008 2:02 pm) Oddly, after we had to sell it and go Subaru-less for a while, she will not touch the Escort. It is probably her disgust of the car itself rather than not wanting to drive a manual, though. I can't blame her - it is a homely little thing.
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Replying to: nippononly (Dec 05, 2008 1:50 pm) My wife learned to drive in automatics but went to the Grand Canyon with three girlfriends when she was 17 and one of the kids owned a stick shift car. They shared driving so she learned how to shift on that trip. There's was a one year gap in our stick shift ownership after we met in '80, but the current dry spell has lasted 9 years now.
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 05, 2008 2:16 pm)
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