Manual vs. automatic

[Smurfy]

Do you know how to drive a stick shift? I'm finding these days there are alot of people who have never learned.

Also, which do you prefer? Stick shift or automatic?

 

[c-sharp minor]

I prefer a standard myself.

 

[jerkbox]

manual all the way

 

[Deus Ex Machina]

automatic, but i can drive both...

 

[Scotsman]

Standard better response and gas mileage if you can run the gears well. I know a lot of people who have only driven automatics becasue their parents bought them a car with auto.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Roid Pimp]

Automatic for trips or City driving
Manual for Sports cars or 4x4's

 

[Razorguns]

i live in la. i'm stuck with auto. you'll kill yourself if u had manual and had to drive on the freeways.

 

[Smurfy]

i actually taught myself how to drive stick shift (although not very well LOL). i was in high school and there was no one home and hte only car in the drive was my dad's 1980something Honda Prelude. So i decided i wanted to go pick up my friends and cruise around town with the sunroof open (cuz that makes me real cool). So the driveway is on an incline and i turn the car on and roll it down backwards into the street. i dont remember too much after that except about 3 hours of joyriding around town with 4 people in the car and i never got past 2nd gear LOL

 

[Werd]

I can drive both. Prefer stick.

 

[SoreArms]

I learned on stick shift, but I could not drive one today, nor would I want to.

I ahev a hard enough time driving "good" on an automatic (I'm easilly distracted nothe road), I can't imagine if i had to also worry about shifting gears and all that shit. It would totally kill my high.

 

[powerslave]

I prefer a manual transmission on a sports car. Used to love dropping the hammer in my 98 Camaro SS whenever I'd see some punk in his neon.

 

[Lestat]

ive always driven a stick.. mainly because my cars have been sports cars.

If I were to get a sedan or SUV i'd go automatic.

 

[saint808]

Automatic for trips or City driving
Manual for Sports cars or 4x4's

got to agree with that... i do too much stop and go and driving a stick just got annoying as fuck.... so i compromised and got an eclipse with a sporttronic transmission.

 

[mdd]

always drove auto.... then got a bike and learned the basics, thenjust applied it to a car and it was easy

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

stick is a pain, though one of my cars is a stick.

My Saturn is auto, too easy, the Lexus can be either manual or auto...sometimes I put the shit in manual on the highway, and the Morgan is a 4 speed 'stick'.

So I do it all.

 

[Forge]

Automatic for trips or City driving
Manual for Sports cars or 4x4's

I agree with this. My cherokee is an auto while my CJ7 is a manual. I would never buy a sports car that wasn't a manual, defeats the purpose of a sports car if it's auto.

 

[string_bean00]

I've never even tried to drive a manual.

 

[gtrcivic]

Drove automatic most of my life.. then at 27 yrs old decided to buy a car i wanted that came only in manual...took a few weekends of driving to get used to it.. finally took it out on the secondary roads, then primary ones....

Like the feel of a manual than automatic.. only thing is hard to eat/drink while driving manual in stop/go traffic....but sure is fun to downshift and take off....

 

[lucidblue]

Only manual, that's what I learned to drive on. Hate driving automatic.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

I can drive both and a motorcycle. I prefer automatic in a car or SUV, manual if I have to use a truck for hauling stuff and automatic would just be silly on a motorcycle.

 

[alien amp pharm]

I can only drive a manual.

Never learned how to drive an automatic.

 

[manny78]

Sequential, otherwise automatic.

Today's automatic boxes are the same or even better than manual. Take the Mercedes' Touchshift or their new 7G-Tronic. Beats any manual box. Sequentials suck for urban driving but rules on the track.

 

[tiger88]

i love a manual tranny

but my ride is an auto

automatics fit well with the supercharger

i drove a m3 with the smg tranny and didnt like it as much as a reg 6 spd gear box

 

[hardrock]

Truck or sedan I preferr an auto. Sports car I like a manual.

 

[solidg]

Automatic. Im lazie.

 

[Lao Tzu]

manual sucks hard when you are driving in town, you always upshift and downshift.

I greatly prefer auto, all the cars ive owned were auto.

 

[mordy]

i live in la. i'm stuck with auto. you'll kill yourself if u had manual and had to drive on the freeways.

I seem to do OK down here. I like the instant power from downshifting to merge and get away from bad situations on the road. Lets face it bumper to bumper sucks whether auto or manual.

 

[Mr. dB]

Matt, I recognize that a modern automatic can perform as well as a manual, but numbers really don't matter on the street, daily-driving is all about the fun. I always drive a manual, 'cause I get bored if there's nothing to do with my left foot.

 

[tripleblonde]

never learned how to drive a manual, but i want to

 

[strongsmartsexy]

never learned how to drive a manual, but i want to

Let us know when you learn how to handle a stick.

 

[Aerojaxx]

Gotta drive a standard !!

 

[argent]

I drive auto. I know how to drive stick, but not well. I couldn't deal with manual on a full-time basis. It fucks with my zen-like driving style.