Poll: To all car drivers - Automatic or Manual

[antidonkey]

Automatic for me. I like maual ones better and given my current car, a auto transmission is a bit of a shame. However, I have gout and whenever it acts up it means I can't push in a clutch pedal so the practical side of me demanded I get an automatic.

 

[thublihnk]

Automatic. Because I am a pansy who merely needs his car to get from point A to point B with as little hassle or thought as possible.

 

[KwaggaDan]

Manual, because I'm a man. Grrrrr!

 

[AdmiralWolverineLightningbolt]

manual
automatic's for people who cant understand the clutch properly..

 

[Billion Backs]

Neither, I'm too broke to get a car and all the other fucking people will get in the way.

Although I tried driving manual (illegally) when I was like 13, in Mother Russia.
With supervision of my parents, of course. Never got into driving, otherwise.

Automatic, manual, meh. Either works.

 

[WitherVoice]

I was shaping up to write a strongly partisan post about this, but then realized I don't care one way or the other. Drive manual myself.

 

[Legion]

Manual, most UK drivers will say the same as you can drive an automatic with a manual license but not the other way around.

 

[Gladion]

Manual because it's more fun and I like to have as much control as possible.

 

[spartan231490]

i only know how to drive automatic, because noone i know has a standart. I really want to drive stick because it gives u much more controll over the vehicle. as soon as i learn, that is all i will drive.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

after 4 years of manual, i think my next ride will be an automatic, they're just a lot easier.

 

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

Manual, nothing against people who drive autos but given the option I would NEVER own one.

In addition to all the normal reasons its because of an experience I had on my motorbike just this year, basically I hit a longish straight and decided to fully open my throttle for a fraction of a second. It jammed open.

Managed to stay on and stop it after skidding through a couple of corners (just) but needless to say it was change of boxers time. If it had been an auto I probably would have found out what 80 mph gravel rash feels like. (Was wearing jeans and my armoured jacket, had left the trousers at home cause the weather was good)

Edit: another point springs to mind...

Automatic. Because I am a pansy who merely needs his car to get from point A to point B with as little hassle or thought as possible.

If you arn't thinking about your driving you are a bad driver and there are far too many of them on the road. I did a driver training course with my local police a year or two back and it was a real eye opener, the vast majority of crashes are caused by driver error, by people not thinking. Me? I know im a bad driver now (after that course) but I used to think I was ok. Most people think they are a good driver and they have had even less training than me. [puts away soap box] sorry about the rant but peoples driving standards are a reall issue for me.

Food for thought, a quote from my motorbike instructor on the subject of driving in general. "When you are out on the road, assume everyone else actively wants to kill you and make it look like an accident, all the time. Cause the one day you go out not thinking that and assume someone else has seen you is the day you will get launched over a bonnet."

(bonnet = hood for the Ammericans)

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Manual, because here, if you take your car certificate with a manual-drive car, you can use both, if you use automatic, you can only drive cars with an automatic gearbox.
Also, manual gearboxes are more manly than those lazy bastards' automatic gearboxes. And you can make your car go faster because you can time your shifts better.

 

[Fellwarden]

I can't imagine how boring it must be to drive an automatic (no offense to any who prefer it). I will always stick with a manual gearbox (though it seems to become rarer and rarer on newer cars, unfortunately).

 

[Kasawd]

I drive an automatic and would like it to continue to be automatic vehicle.

What can I say, I like to have my vehicle change gears on its own.

 

[Metal Brother]

I live in the US but love to drive manual - both of my cars are stick shifts. Driving a manual car gives so much more control and is much more fun.

I travel a lot for work, and in the US you never see rental cars with manual transmissions. That's one reason why I love renting cars in Europe - and especially the UK and Ireland, where you get manual transmission rental cars AND you get to drive on the wrong side of the road. ;-)

 

[Nyffenschwander]

It depends. Sporty cars with automatic transmissions never worked for me, same goes for comfortable sedans or SUVs with a manual gearbox.
But it also depends on the manufacturer. Mercedes for example offers one of the best automatic gearboxes ever, the 7-G-Tronic, but their manual gearboxes are frickin' horrible!
BMWs and Porsche share the honour of having the best manual gearboxes (in my opinion), but their auto transmissions of the last years have been just annoyingly bad (goes especially for Porsche before they introduced the infamous "Doppelkupplungsgetriebe", a dual clutch transmission).
Since the newer automatic transmissions seem to increase fuel efficiency instead of ruining it, I think my next car will have one, given that I can afford a new(er) car any time soon.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Manual, unless you have a vagina, then automatic is fine.

 

[Summerstorm]

I drive automatic... but i prefer driving stick. It was the old car of my late grandfather... That pretty much explained it. Overall i don't care that much about what transmission a car has... as long as it is cheap and good i take anything.

 

[dsmops2003]

Automatic because I'm a lazy American.