12-10-2020, 10:47 PM
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Re: Manual (stick shift)or Automatic transmission
Originally Posted by Mups
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You're probably right, Bruce.It's just I feel too long in the tooth to change now.
I am too much of a fusty old fart.
12-10-2020, 10:52 PM
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Re: Manual (stick shift)or Automatic transmission
Originally Posted by Bruce
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I wasn't being critical but I think driving an auto was a bit of an epiphany for my brother. When I got my first auto I regretted not getting one years before, that seems to be a common theme, they are only a couple of grand($) more than a manual which is peanuts really on a new car.
Well maybe I'll be brave enough to try one, one of these days.
12-10-2020, 11:15 PM
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Re: Manual (stick shift)or Automatic transmission
Originally Posted by Bruce
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My brother said almost exactly the same thing but when he visited he drove my auto and an auto rental car. Within weeks of returning to the UK he had sold his car and bought an auto.When I visited to UK a few years back I rented a car and was amazed to discover that almost all the cars were manuals. Here it is almost impossible to rent a manual car. Surely no one believes the BS about being "in control" with a manual gearbox especially on crowded UK roads.
13-10-2020, 06:55 PM
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I took my first driving test in 1951 in a '41 Mercury Coupe. No automatic or turn signal lights for that matter.Also had a '63 Corvette with a 4 speed and I wouldn't have wanted an "auto" in that car.
Also had an '84 diesel VW Rabbit with a stick. With the lack of power in that diesel, when you got in hilly country, shifting was like playing a banjo. You'd go through all 4 gears going up a long hill.
Since those years it's always been an auto and they've improved greatly since the early "slide-o-matics".
13-10-2020, 08:16 PM
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Re: Manual (stick shift)or Automatic transmission
Originally Posted by Mups
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You're probably right, Bruce.It's just I feel too long in the tooth to change now.
I am too much of a fusty old fart.
16-10-2020, 09:48 AM
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I took my test in a 3 ton Bedford truck. Manual crash type gear change. (Double de-clutch). I also took my London taxi drivers (police tester) in the same type of gear change.But I was then driving automatic cabs for 45 years and still do with my present car.
16-10-2020, 03:54 PM
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Re: Manual (stick shift)or Automatic transmission
Originally Posted by JBR
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Oh, Mups. I wouldn't describe you as fusty.
17-10-2020, 10:43 PM
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Re: Manual (stick shift)or Automatic transmission
Originally Posted by Minx
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Do you prefer driving a Manual or an automatic transmission vehicle?
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