I am sitting in the lobby of a tire and auto repair shop. Just had a flat on the work car, so they are fixing it.
I left the car in the lot with the key in it. The guy walks out...then comes back in and says to the other guy- Can you drive stick? Guy #2 says no. They yell to guy #3 in the bay- he says no.
Finally the manager comes out and moves it.
I understand there are less and less stick cars- but these guys work at a car shop moving cars in and out all day. And they don't appear that young. 30+ I'd say.
I'm turning 30, started driving standard at 19. :thumbup:
A lot of people are shocked, impressed or bewildered as to how and why I drive with a manual. I can only have one car so it is a stickshift. Once I can store more than two cars I will probably get an automatic pickup for a daily type vehicle. I understand why people go to slushboxes and DSG but I'm not a fan of an auto as an only car.
42 years old and every car I ever owned was manual except my 2000 4x4 Ranger Supercab. I learned to drive manual very young but learned to NOT ride the clutch and always baby the transmission. But now I am pretty sure that my next new cars will all be automatics.
84 Sentra
87 Sentra
87 Scirocco
85 S-10 Blazer (POS 5 speed with the 2.5 Iron Duke)
93 Probe GT
Automatic 2000 Ranger Supercab 4x4 Lease. The auto trans was almost $20 cheaper per month due to residual.
2003 VW Jetta 1.8T which is avail for sale... :laugh:
78 Trans Am
2003 Boxster
C5 Corvette
08 Honda S2000
Myself and wife, both 34 yes. Sister-in-law 30 can but owns autos. Mother-in-law 60 dailys a stick Jetta. Mother did it once when her friend was drunk in college :laugh:. Just about everyone I know at least knows how to, welcome to Montana.
Hmm, motorcycles, since 9, car since 13/14? Didn't own a manual til 21, but all my cars have been manual since. Am now 23. (With the exception of the wife's R32, but she is learning stick on my mk7 GTI, 21.)
24, yes. My Rabbit is manual. First manual I drove I was 14 in the parking lot of a local grocer, cousins 1997 Sunfire. I really learned on my current car though, stalled about a dozen times on the way home from the dealer. 8 years and 200k kms later I'd say I'm pretty good, just spent 12 hours at a funeral standing in heels and drove home without issue.
Wish I had a car enthusiast in my family though so I could really perfect heel-toe, double declutch, etc. Meh.
I love manuals and all but I gotta call BS on that one. Driving a manual in traffic is not the pain many people make it out to be, but it definitely requires more than an automatic in traffic.
33 and learned to drive on a stick shift Honda Accord. Had only owned manual transmission vehicles until we bought my wife a car when she was pregnant.
The amusing thing is not so much that people in car shops can not drive a manual, it's that car shops haven't gotten smart enough to ask before they hire someone.
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