Your mom rules 

I blame the Boomers for this, for being too lazy and having shitty knees to row their own, and for not teaching their children to drive them

Old people have money.  They buy new cars.   Look it up. 

2016 and 2017 manual owner, present. Do we have a quorum?

My parents are both 70 and bought new manual transmission cars. My dad a BRZ, and my mom a Civic Type-R.

I never bought this BS and neither should you. The single clutch sequential manuals (i.e. non dual clutch) are just manual transmissions but with an electrically operated clutch. The hardware is more than able to handle the power safely. Lambo could’ve put a manual linkage in the Aventador but chose not to for…

the driving experience is actually pretty similar to a manual, except for the

My beater is about to die, so I’ve been looking around here in the OC for a sedan or hatch. Outside of Si’s,WRX’s,and GTI’s, there aren’t a hell of alot of sticks on the lot anywhere.

My apologies for digging up and sharing some interesting information with you. I hope that you are day isn’t completely ruined.

On dial-up, a simple article didn’t have ONE HUNDRED AND NINE ad breaks.

Yeah, just make an electric crossover like everybody else and don’t bastardize the Mustang brand.

ok boomer

Gen X’ers need to get over their phobia of wagons. They’re cool AND practical.

SEMA:

They actually had one... just one.

ah, ah, ah

Unfortunately, you’re up against two very strong American knee-jerk reactions to basically every (even somewhat minor) problem:

I wonder if in any other country or any other culture in the world there is such hatred - manufactured hatred at that - between arbitrarily delimited generations? I’m not talking about the expectable “kids these days are dumb ‘n’ lazy”/”old people are stuffy ‘n’ stodgy” business, but these endless campaigns of…

Counterpoint - Boomers as a whole are doing fine in terms of their personal lives. They can handle some light ribbing over the fact that their generation, on balance, supports awful people and awful policies. 

“takes over any sidewalk it’s on like it owns it, and everyone else on the sidewalk—kids, pets, joggers, whoever—better get the hell out of the way”