Poll: Manual or Automatic?

[unsmart]

Nope, just not knowing how to spell!

Well that's not near as funny...

Well, living in California I guess you can say I grew up driving Mexicans! (get it? California uses Mexican labor as slave labor.. slave drivers.. yeah I give up)

 

[A random person]

Automatic. We don't even have a car with manual transmission, and I'm just learning how to drive.

 

[Aur0ra145]

Manual, always have always will.

 

[z121231211]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

 

[Varchld]

Manual for my car and semi-automatic for my rifle.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

Automatic is far more convenient when I'm talking on my cell phone, watching a DVD, shaving, and plugging directions into my GPS while driving.

I'm just kidding. I don't shave.

 

[Blackadder51]

I learnt on manual but bought a auto...

 

[Grampy_bone]

Sticks impress chicks...

 

[BoxCutter]

M5 baby

 

[neo34]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

 

[BaronXS]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

I raise you my DeLorean DMC-12 with variable transmission. Great for those days when it's rush hour, and I just switch it to auto, the turn it to manual on those empty roads.

 

[neo34]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

I raise you my DeLorean DMC-12 with variable transmission. Great for those days when it's rush hour, and I just switch it to auto, the turn it to manual on those empty roads.

Well touche baron, its not very often I find someone who has a car that is more rare (rarer?) than mine but a DeLorean with variable transmission? I can't say I have ever heard of such a thing. Is it like the auto-sticks that i see in some cars now, where you switch over and just move the stick up or down or is it a legit stick?

 

[SirJewBagel]

Manual 5-speed. I can't drive automatic any more. I'm to tempted to move the shifting nob all different ways.

I want my next car to be a 6 speed. Mainly for freeway purposes.

I drive a 06' Mazda '3'

 

[Herb sewell]

I am complete garbage at driving manual. Only time I really tried I smashed thru a 2X4 in an intersection.

 

[The Political Gamer]

I fail at driving stick.

 

[BaronXS]

I want to learn how to drive manual but I've only drivin automatic. I hear Manual cars get more gas milage.

It really depends on how you drive it lol. If you keep your transmission in the appropriate gear for the speed, your RPMs will be in the correct range for the job.

A good analogy would be: Imagine a king on a thrown who is so much of a pompous ass that he has servants carry his thrown every where he goes with him on it. Think of each servant as a cylinder from your engine (4 servants, 4 cylinder engine, make sense?) When the servants carry the thrown on their shoulder and with a full handed grip, walking, this allows them to travel farther, and longer.

When the servants carry the thrown next to their hips with just their finger tips, they can't go as far or as fast. This would be analogous to keeping your car in a too high a gear for the speed (causing your rpms to be too low).

Consequently, if the servants were running with the thrown on their shoulders, they would go faster, but certainly not farther.


ANYWAY: I drive standard, and I have been doing so since my 2nd car, and it's like breathing to me. I believe that everyone should start out driving an automatic, that way you can learn how the road works. changing to standard should only come when you realize that you are a "Journey" type driver, not a "point A to Point B" type of driver.

Oh, and for those who are curious:

I drive a 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, 5 Speed Standard

I see your supra and raise you one 1989 Mk1 MR2. Mine is naturally aspirated but it more than makes up for it around turns... god I love my car. And for the record it is a stick. It can be a pain sometimes when I am feeling lazy but it is so much fun to drive that it more than makes up for it.

I raise you my DeLorean DMC-12 with variable transmission. Great for those days when it's rush hour, and I just switch it to auto, the turn it to manual on those empty roads.

Well touche baron, its not very often I find someone who has a car that is more rare (rarer?) than mine but a DeLorean with variable transmission? I can't say I have ever heard of such a thing. Is it like the auto-sticks that i see in some cars now, where you switch over and just move the stick up or down or is it a legit stick?

It's a new build DeLorean, so it's chassis is modified for variable transmission. The way it works is that you push the shifter into the gearbox for automatic, and pull it out manual. It has a button on the side to make sure you don't push it down by accident.