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Stick or automatic?

Stick or automatic

  • Standard all the way!

    Votes: 29 55.8%

  • Automatic!

    Votes: 10 19.2%

  • both, doesn't matter to me!

    Votes: 12 23.1%

  • Pssh shifting, I only have one speed GO! (just limited to how fast my feet take me)

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Total voters
    52
I actually have a manual 2006 Nissan Altima. It is very rare! I hade it since new and only now I need to change the back brakes. I use the gears to slow down. But I am not a fast driver anyway. I am pretty mellow.
 
Of the six vehichles I've owned only one has been an automatic and that was only because I couldn't find one with a stick.
 
I have both an automatic and a stick. It doesn't really matter, but I prefer driving my automatic because it has a more comfortable seat. :)
 
For me it all depends on the make, model and engine size.

I can't stand front wheel drive cars although if I have to go down that route then has to be manual. And it's the same if it has a small engine, front or rear wheel drive, you'll get more out of a small engine and manual tranny.

I'll happily run an automatic with rear wheel drive and a big enough engine... 3.0 litres or more. But I prefer the German, English and Japanese auto boxes. The latest electronically controlled epicyclic/torque converter autos are brilliant. Double clutch autos are fantastic, no torque converter so no slip. But CVT???... Only when appropriate.
 
I miss the stick! Learned on my dads '76 Mustang II. Driven automatic all of my adult life. Every time I'm in the market for a new car I consider stick. But like most, I remember sitting in traffic workin' the clutch. Maybe my next vehicle?
 
Doit2it said:
...But like most, I remember sitting in traffic workin' the clutch...
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Gotta agree with you there. In start/stop and slow moving traffic a manual car can be a night mare.

Best of both worlds... Go for the double clutch automatics...
 
Never had a problem with that. Besides which, new cars have too much crap on them.

The car I'd love to have back is my 1600CC 1967 Triumph Spitfire. New cars stall, you need to get help. Spitfire would stall due to points closing - remove distributor cap and regap with matchbook if you didn't have a feeler gauge.
 
Doit2it said:
I miss the stick! Learned on my dads '76 Mustang II. Driven automatic all of my adult life. Every time I'm in the market for a new car I consider stick. But like most, I remember sitting in traffic workin' the clutch. Maybe my next vehicle?
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Oh, the memories i have of my old mustang II! :(
 
Stick all the way. Have shocked quite a few guys when they joke and hand me the keys to their car and laugh thinking I'm not going anywhere. Next up is to master a motorcycle. Then I think I'll try for the big trucks - just to prove I can
I won't even look at cars now unless they are manual. And like someone else said - if I'm driving automatic I have a 'trigger' happy clutch foot - I've learned to tuck it to the side of the seat to prevent emergency brake stomping
 
auto because I drive to school in the mornings, half asleep in stop and go traffic.

I drive a 2007 Nissan Altima with the CVT and the 3.5 liter v6 engine.
 
BabyBlues said:
Stick all the way. Have shocked quite a few guys when they joke and hand me the keys to their car and laugh thinking I'm not going anywhere. Next up is to master a motorcycle. Then I think I'll try for the big trucks - just to prove I can
I won't even look at cars now unless they are manual. And like someone else said - if I'm driving automatic I have a 'trigger' happy clutch foot - I've learned to tuck it to the side of the seat to prevent emergency brake stomping
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My wife is the only one out of 4 kids that can drive a stick. She has two older sisters 31 and 32, and her younger brother who is 23 or 24 I think. I am glad I got the good one :P Many people think its funny that she can drive a stick out of all of them. She is the most "delicate" of the bunch. lol.
 
I've only owned manual transmission cars. They're cheaper ($500+ cheaper), more dependable, better on gas, give better HP/torque, and can withstand upgrading better.

Automatic cars piss me off. I always end up pumping the gas to try to get the damn thing to shift when I want it to.
 
It mainly gears in the uk you can get autos but most learner driving schools have gears
Not really that many cars with auto in the uk thou

I have a vauxhall corsa c sxi 1.2 16v in star silver III and love it but its a 2005 make
But also drive a 2011 meriva 1.7 cdti both cars with gears as its more money to pay with automatic
 
VegasOnAcid said:
Downshifting to pass people is always fun.
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Is it cruel to intentionally downshift and speed past a sports car just so they get a bug about being passed by a focus, and then have them gun it and fly past, and then laugh because you know that cops usually sit about a mile and a half down the road. :D
 
i refuse to purchase/lease a car unless it's a manual. BUT the need to learn to drive stick is quickly fading as manufacturers make less and less manual transmissions in their cars. Its really sad.
 
nyydynasty said:
i refuse to purchase/lease a car unless it's a manual. BUT the need to learn to drive stick is quickly fading as manufacturers make less and less manual transmissions in their cars. Its really sad.
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lol come to the UK we have more manual than automatic :D
 
here some photos of my Corsa

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and the Meriva

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sorry about the rubbish pictures lol
 
I drive an "automatic", I guess it technically is, it's actually a CVT but it has a manual mode with paddle shifters.
 
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