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Do You Drive Manual or Automatic?
- Thread starter Debater Slayer
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Manual, i prefer the more precise control you have on what the car is doing.
An American friend who moved to France had terrible trouble. Learning to drive and gaining your license using an automatic gearbox does not qualify you you drive a manual.
Automatic cars are like hens teeth over here unless you are buying a high end vehicle. All she needed was a little run about. She eventually wound up buying a Citroen with a sequential gearbox, R+1<>4+D. She can use R and D to stay within the letter of the law but really should not use the sequential gearing.
An American friend who moved to France had terrible trouble. Learning to drive and gaining your license using an automatic gearbox does not qualify you you drive a manual.
Automatic cars are like hens teeth over here unless you are buying a high end vehicle. All she needed was a little run about. She eventually wound up buying a Citroen with a sequential gearbox, R+1<>4+D. She can use R and D to stay within the letter of the law but really should not use the sequential gearing.
I voted "manual" because I drive both.
Automatics are the future. Better fuel economy
& greater control over the vehicle are arriving.
Automatics are the future. Better fuel economy
& greater control over the vehicle are arriving.
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Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Both. The car came equipped with automatic. I have manual with the truck. I believe it helps a little with power and hauling. And motorcycles are generally manual. I learned to drive with manual. It really doesn't matter a whole lot to me. Although, I hear automatic motorcycles suck.
Manual.
I didnt specifically opt for it, but it is ok, and helps me keep my speed in check by using lower gears through the school zones.
The downside is that if I get an injury to my left arm or leg I won't be able to drive it.
Automatic also take less strength to change gears, which for a young bloke isn't a problem but for older people especially medicated ones can potentially be annoying.
VoidCat
Use any and all pronouns including neo and it/it's
I don't know how to drive never learned
I don't know even if it'd be safe for me to for disability reasons
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Automatic... we've had Manuel's though. They are fun to drive but I'm lazy... prefer not to shift.
My car is automatic. My wife's car is manual. We both drive both but have a preference.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
If it wasn't for the traffic I'd probably go with a manual as they are better, but at the same time it would be bad for the transmission if my knee popped and I messed shifting up.
Manual, very much by choice.
Last couple of cars have been 6 speeds, a Honda Accord Euro, and now a Hyundai Veloster SR.
In the market for a new car, and here in Australia it is VERY limiting to buy manual. Vast majority of cars only come in automatic. Also SUVs have completely taken over the market, which sucks for me personally.
Last couple of cars have been 6 speeds, a Honda Accord Euro, and now a Hyundai Veloster SR.
In the market for a new car, and here in Australia it is VERY limiting to buy manual. Vast majority of cars only come in automatic. Also SUVs have completely taken over the market, which sucks for me personally.
I knew it!
Automatics are for shiftless people.
Oddly, this city-dweller has only owned one car in his life -- a Fiat sports car (124 Spider) with a beautiful standard transmission (and Italian Hooker Red paint job).
I once rented a Fiat motor home to spend 3 weeks touring England, Wales and Scotland -- it was also a standard. But here's the deal: driving on the wrong side of the road, with the stick in your left hand (but in the same shift-pattern as over here), and hitting your first round-about -- well, that's when you know you are about to die!
(The fact that I'm writing this should suggest that I managed to avoid that rather dismal outcome.)
When I need a car now, I just rent one. Sadly, they're all automatic. Convenient, but not much fun.
I once rented a Fiat motor home to spend 3 weeks touring England, Wales and Scotland -- it was also a standard. But here's the deal: driving on the wrong side of the road, with the stick in your left hand (but in the same shift-pattern as over here), and hitting your first round-about -- well, that's when you know you are about to die!
(The fact that I'm writing this should suggest that I managed to avoid that rather dismal outcome.)When I need a car now, I just rent one. Sadly, they're all automatic. Convenient, but not much fun.
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Sand Dancer
Currently catless
I can drive both, but I like to travel, and with hills, you roll backwards before you give enough gas to move forward, so I prefer automatic.
Automatics are much easier when maneuvering a trailer.
I've always had a manual car but I did have a test drive in an automatic Golf once. Not sure if this is a feature of all automatics but I didn't like the lack of engine-braking - as when descending steep hills for example - and hence having to rely purely on the brakes. It obviously just felt so unnatural after driving a manual car for so long. I didn't buy the automatic.
Secret Chief
Veteran Member
So it was all just a dream then and you never came to the UK?!
I was on a coach once in France and the driver was British. At one point he came off a roundabout and went straight into the incorrect lane. That tested the old sphincters.
It's the opposite here in Canada: automatics are the default. More and more, you can only get manual transmissions on performance-oriented vehicles, and even that's becoming less common.
I assumed - perhaps wrongly - that automatics would be more prevalent in Europe now, at least for new cars. When I bought my current car, I noticed that the safety package with all the collision avoidance features was only available with an automatic transmission (presumably because automatic braking would stall the car unless the car's computer could control the clutch), and Europe is usually ahead of North America in making vehicle safety features mandatory.
Manual.
I've specifically opted for that in my last two cars.
I like having a manual transmission. I'm not sure if I'll get another for my next car, though.
I'm seriously considering an EV next, and I don't know of any that have a manual transmission as an option. Also, my wife doesn't drive manual, so that becomes an issue sometimes.