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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: 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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Replying to: nippononly (Dec 05, 2008 2:19 pm) 
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Replying to: nippononly (Dec 05, 2008 2:19 pm) But I suppose I could live with an automatic for the next decade if need be. |
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Before I moved off of the mountain last April. A very good friend of our had five kids and no manuals at all. So I offered to teach four of their children how to drive a stick. We had two manuals and one automatic at the time. They did pretty well and I even let them drive around some mountain roads close to where we lived. Ot the three the oldest Girl got a F-150 with a auto. The second Girl got a Rav-4 with a auto. The next one was a boy that bought a Subaru WRX and that at least was a stick. The last girl got a Civic with a automatic. I won't be teaching the last girl because we moved and no longer have a manual. So she will learn on a automatic but I would think she would have gone manual anyway. More than likely she will get one of her sisters cars. Still the origional post indicating that fewer parents have manuals is a valid one. My son can drive anything that moves no matter what transmission it has and his truck is an Automatic diesel 3500 and his car is a manual Saturn. But he is a bit like me in that the vehicle choice is more important than the transmission. I guess he was lucky we had manuals when he was learning to drive. But if we as a nation go hybrid or EV I believe it will be a good trade off even if they aren't manual friendly.
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