Yes, they absolutely are overrepresented. I’m saying this as someone currently hunting far and wide for info on my next car purchase. You can’t read or watch a review of any new vehicle without running into the inevitable ding against the absence of a manual option, or the fact that the car has a CVT. The superiority…

The CVT isn’t actually slow, though.

The problem is that making these AWD cars more “fun” will also kill their gas mileage, which is already hampered by the AWD. The entire reason why you can get 33 highway out of the latest Forester is because it has a CVT. And honestly, the Subaru ones aren’t that bad. It really does just feel like an empty applause…

I guess what I find a bit absurd is how the critique of [Not A Manual] never really amounts to anything illuminating or interesting. When people like George deploy these tired statements, they always come off as rather empty applause lines, head nods to the community entirely designed to express a shared credibility.…

Well no, you’re trying to paint yourself that way. I have literally no idea what your anecdote is meant to prove, other than that you are a special driver who drives really good. The alternative is that you genuinely believe they just put CVTs into cars to piss people off, be worse than every other alternative, and to…

You’re gonna want to keep a few changes of pants and underwear in your car if that’s how you approach driving.

Again, the existence of a program isn’t the point.

She sounds like a shitty boss, but not an abusive one—at least by the standards of her colleagues—and if she was a man I doubt this would get coverage.

Or fight for a reality in which servers get paid reasonable wages, thereby resigning tipping culture to the dustbin of history. I tip servers in the US, and don’t do it grudgingly. But I also lived in a country with no tipping culture for about 10 years, and can attest to how much more dignified the whole experience…

I think the most noteworthy thing in your entire anecdote is that you’re going to all this trouble, but even in your extreme case, assuming it’s true, you’re still just eking out like 2-3 more mpg than the CVT in drive mode. Assuming that you’re not carrying out this driving under tightly-controlled, scientific study…

Okay. I mean, I don’t know what I’m supposed to say to that. I guess these companies aren’t putting CVTs in cars to boost gas mileage, then. They’re just putting them in to piss off Jalopnik commenters, who are all unequivocally better at manually squeezing out every bit of value from their gas tanks than CVT-equipped…

Manual fetishism is really strange. There are so few places where driving a manual transmission is very enjoyable anymore. Traffic sucks anywhere close to civilization, and driving a manual in traffic sucks. I have a CVT in my Subaru, and it’s the best transmission I’ve ever owned, and I’ve had manual, auto,…

But you know what? The CVT does its job just fine and life goes on. Do I wish I could have a fun weekend car with a manual? Sure... but it’s not happening right now.

Main reason I like manuals is because whenever I drive an auto or CVT, there’s that little voice in my head that says “I could’ve handled that better than the stupid computer.”

Why? Just because it’s “real gears”? I don’t get it. CVTs aren’t horrible these days. I almost—almost—get the nostalgia for manuals. But the way people are increasingly nostalgic for automatics just boggles the mind, and pretty well demonstrates that the aversion for CVTs (which has displaced the older aversion for…

How is Steam a monopoly? If they are, it isn’t because of anything they’ve done. Valve has always been happy for devs to release their games anywhere they like (and yes, there are other platforms). Epic, on the other hand, is putting cash in devs’ hands in order to get them to release exclusively on their platform. It…

So, like, you shouldn’t own a dog if you live in northern MN and literally can’t spend two 30-minute dog-walking sessions outdoors without dying during the winter?

The problem is that the owner of the bar was probably motivated by asshats on their Facebook, or whatever, and now the frontline employees have to do their jobs while enforcing a deliberately provocative rule that will almost certainly draw problems that didn’t even exist before. If the owner was going to be solely…

The most hilarious thing ever is watching people who irrationally hate CVTs wax nostalgic about traditional automatics.

I’ve never bought a brand new car in my life, but if they stuck a 6 speed in a Legacy, that might change.