If you have a manual transmission, you are driving the car. If you have an automatic, you are merely steering.

“You can love driving a manual just because of the way it feels, even if it doesn’t really make a lot of sense. You can get perverse joy from your aching left calf in long stretches of stop-and-go traffic, you can let yourself thrill to the process of finding the clutch point on a new, unfamiliar car, you can try to…

I’ve driven NOTHING but manuals since 82.  My current ride is a manual.  I even insist my boss who provides a company vehicle, that it be manual as well.  The last one I had was an automatic, and I had it for 4 years.  HATED IT, especially in the winter.  I like the fact you can slip it in 2nd and slowly go without…

Speak for yourself.

If there’s a manual option, I’ll take it in general. If there just isn’t, but the car in question ticks most of my boxes, then fine, modern autos are not that intrusive nor incompetent as old ones. However, I personally don’t find manuals hard to drive. It’s instinctive for me to drive manual and really an automatic…

Is no one going to mention how much more reliable manuals are? Especially when compared to CVTs.

The biggest thing with this is that corporations drive demand now. They rely on people just accepting whatever’s given to them. I’ve heard multiple people say they want a smaller car, but nobody sells small cars in the U.S. except Mitsubishi with the Mirage and Ford with the atrocious EcoSport that I wish would just…

Other than when the Charger was my everyday car because it’s an automatic, they’ve always been sticks at the Guy household. The current everyday car I bought in Jan sat on the dealer’s lot for nine weeks. Did it sit there so long because it’s a stick? Absolutely. (It also drove the dealer’s asking price down another…

If manuals die out completely I’ll be driving nothing but old used cars for the remainder of my life or until they are banned in favor of automated vehicles. If you want to push the go pedal, push the stop pedal, and be completely unengaged the rest of the time, that’s your concern. Side benefit: my wife can never…

The modern world does nothing but try to make things “easier” by placing some technology between me and some simple piece of work that needs to be done. Quite often, I appreciate it; I don’t really want to hoist that garage door up by hand. But the manual transmission is my human interaction between the engine and the…

This spoke to me, as a 33 year old New Yorker who does not know how to drive, and who loves to watch MotorTrend, particularly FantomWorks. Cars are beautiful objects, regardless of my irrational fear of trying to drive one in NY, much less find parking. Normally, I would say the subway is the way to go in NY, but what…

You are not only obnoxious, but you’re completely wrong. We like manuals because they’re fun. Not for status reasons. Don’t tell me why I enjoy something. Just because you’re wussing out don’t mean the rest of us will.

Cheapness. Reliability. Long Lasting.

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LOL at the grandkids selling your car. I’d be rolling in my grave, drive the damn thing! The car they would be selling for me would be my 2015 Mustang GT. I love that car and for the first time in my life, I plan to own that car forever! (Unless I upgrade to a GT350 lol) If manuals were not dying, I might not have…

Interested in the thought process. I’ve only been driving manual for 5 years, but both my cars are manual, and I don’t see myself switching to auto. Even in the worst traffic California threw at me, I never thought about how difficult a manual was, I just did it. Often times I find I have a lot more control of what…

Some people will take the engagement and enjoyment of diving over .2 sec to 60.  I will, every time.

Having a stick is like having more than 300hp in a car. Yeah, nobody needs it, and wanting it is irrational, and having less power provides a whole host of benefits from increased fuel economy and reliability, and reduced costs for wear items like tires. But some people just like power.

It would still be a talking point. I don’t care how good or bad automatic transmissions are. I want 3 pedals and a functional shifter for my own enjoyment.

VIVA LA TRANSMISSION!