Manual transmission is also a great anti-theft device, since most kids don’t know how to drive it.
Funny, when I was in the military all the Gen X’ers couldn’t drive stick when we got rentals in Europe. I could because I rode a motorcycle, so I just always drove.
My own purely anecdotal observation is that there are still far more of us Xers who know how to drive a manual transmission. One good thing about it, for my wife and I at least, is that our gen Z kids never asked to borrow our cars and just bought their own automatics or borrowed from their grandparents.
My wife’s car has an especially fiendish hydraulic clutch that will stall out if you even look at it funny, so that helped too.
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Why is this on shitpost? Wrong sub.
Don’t worry, AI transmission works most of the time (but every now and then it may hallucinate on the highway…)
Why is AI allowed to do that and when I’m driving on shrooms I’ll loose my license. Seems unfair to me. Hallucinogens for everyone!
Love my 7MT and the risk of a high speed 1-2-1.
Corvette? 911?
Corvette, not many know that!
Car enthusiast?
Oh yeah, as far as I know those are the only cars that offer a 7mt aside from some really exotic cars
Always been curious how those actually work, is neutral still directly between 3 and 4? Like if you press the shifter straight forward you are in 3 right
Right between the 3 and 4. The weight or pressure to keep the shifter there is much higher than any other car, I think so we don’t get confused by feel where the shifter is because the middle is in no man’s land. And the pressure when I try to slide over to 7 is abruptly more to let me feel I’ve gone past 5 and 6.
At only a day or two I knew where the shifter was without looking.
My only gripe is GMs “you just shift into 4th from 1st” when starting off slower. I don’t always want that and when trying to teach my wife how to drive it is really confusing for her.
She still doesn’t know how to drive it, maybe next year?
Could also be a 4x4 with a crawling gear (e.g., Ford Bronco), but I’m not sure if that counts
The right most picture is a manumatic with lightning links and iirc you can push start on them.
Does this guy not know of a handbrake?
Works really well in my automatic car.
This meme is pre-electric.
Same
Hyundai is making an Ioniq 5 N, that can simulate gears and gearchanges so people can still feel like vroooom, vroooooom. You can’t make that up.
That’s slightly less offensive IMO, than the fact that if you turned the speaker off on a modern ICE Mustang or Corvette, they’d be as quiet as a Prius. This means they could have put the speaker on the EV versions they just released, but they didn’t. There’s something wrong about a silent Mustang or Corvette.
As a resident in a nice, hilly area: Not really. Traffic can’t become silent quickly enough.
Isn’t that a law in EU for pedestrian safety?
It’s not the same noise. Law is just a zoom or whatever at low speeds. The speaker is artificial engine noise and stuff
How silly.
Toyota is working on a fake manual too. As a manual enthusiast… I think it’s just dumb.
I love my manual xB.
1995 Ford F150 5 speed manual. I have no complaints.
Bullshit, you definitely complain about gas prices.
Don’t we all though?
No - EV Driver
Not if you drive a normal car
Nope. I drive a modern vehicle that gets ~28mpg. I haven’t even noticed gas prices in ages.
You might not, but anyone who has to breathe around it will.
Cars aren’t about driving. You want to drive? Go to the track.
Cars are about getting from point A to point B. Bring on full automation please!Cars are about getting from point A to point B.
We had a tool for that it was called public transportation
Cars are about running down pedestrians, taking up space, eating hot chip and lie
What was the pedestrian points system again?
- 10 points for every child
- 20 for every adult
- 30 for a pram
- 50 for a pushbike
Were there any others?
Go hit and run and rack up those points now!
For the uninformed.
We played by slightly different score system but the ranking seems the same, we also included Old People, and Wheel Chairs / Mobility Scooters, which with your scoring system would be 75 and 100 respectively. Push bikes and prams would be switched as bikes are more common and prams more devastating so they’re worth more points. We also had bonus points for pedestrians caught off a cross-walk.
why no banana? fukc you
Fuck you banana dealer
Trolling or sad child?
99% of people want just that. a -> b with a level of safety, fuel efficiency, comfort and a cell phone to distract them. Nobody wants to be constantly pumping the clutch in slow traffic on a daily commute. I have an automatic, and it’s perfect for DD. We also have a small, 6-cyl with a standard, and that car is a ton of fun for evenings out and weekends. I wouldn’t want to make myself or the car suffer in a metro area traffic jam moving at a snail’s pace.
I actually quite enjoy driving, especially at night, really helps me relax and get rid of anxiety. I would love to do a track day, but shits expensive.
See if there are any autocross groups in your area. Cheaper and safer than a track day with 95% of the thrill.
There is an event in April in thinking about signing up for, it’s only about 200 bucks to enter and there are other events in the club later if I like it, also just in time for my birthday!
Do it! If nothing else you should go to see how they are run. Bring a helmet if you have one, ride-alongs are super fun.
If I go I will def want to drive, I bought a zoomie car for a reason.
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On the one hand, I agree, but on the other hand, it’s one of the most dangerous times to drive
I’ve been working nights for a good chunk of my life and I can’t understand why people say this. I prefer to drive at night, maybe if I didn’t live in a big city I might think differently. But, I’ve never had an accident, I rarely sit in traffic, cops generally have bigger shit to deal with at night so I don’t need to worry about speed traps or anything. I can’t think of any downside to night driving
Idk, I mean it’s darker, but there are also a lot less cars on the road. I do what I can for accident prevention, I have a dash cam as well, but nothing is 100% risk free and I’m gonna attempt to enjoy what life I have left, and driving is something I wnjoy.
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Most of not-North-America drive around in manual vehicles. Have to wonder what the allure is of something which is kind of mundane and boring. When I’m driving a manual I’m not thinking I’m Steve McQueen, instead I’m just constantly shifting gears between sets of traffic lights. If people really want to connect with a car, then buy an EV. Instant torque and responsiveness without screwing around with extra sticks and pedals or suffering the rubber banding in some automatics.
My favorite car ever was my 1986 Toyota Corolla manual. It was my mom’s first and then I inherited it in the late 90s. The tire rod snapped one day and it slammed into a parked car. I was more devastated about losing the car than I was what it would cost me in damages.
I drive an automatic now. A Prius. I don’t regret it because it’s a really good car and was a really good investment in terms of savings on gas, but I do miss that Corolla and I really miss the feeling of control I had when I drove a manual.
i remember reading a study when Prius first came out. Over the life of the car, meaning from construction of the parts, to end of life of the vehicle, a Prius pollutes more than a Hummer.
If it sounds wrong, it probably is wrong so you should check snopes first.
A Prius polluting more than a Hummer is based on bad research that’s so bad it’s an outright lie.
Some of the nonsense in the paper was that a Prius would be completely dead at 109,000 miles while a Hummer would last for 379,000 miles. Another was charging the R&D to develop the Prius as environmental damage while ignoring the Hummer R&D. And last was the claim that the nickel in the Prius was an environmental nightmare despite it being recyclable and that the Hummer uses more nickel in its chassis than the Prius uses in its battery!
But Rush Limbaugh talked about the paper as if it was gospel so the lie lives on forever.
Okay? I got it because it’s saving me a lot of money.
good on you. just don’t be fooled into thinking it’s saving the environment too.
Why is that? I would expect an SUV to pollute more, both in production and over its life span.
take into account that parts are made for the prius in a number of different countries and shipped via boat to one country for partial assembly, then to another for final assembly. not only that, but the mining done for the battery components etc.
I’m still perplexed by my grandfather driving around in a manual with a beer and a cigarette. Did the WWII generation have a third hand?
I don’t drive a car that needs detonating dino-dhiarrea anymore. And BEVs only habe one gear. So there’s that.
