Stick shift

Can you drive a stick (manual transmission)

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I put other as I don't drive at all for medical reasons but probably would have an automatic. I've driven one once or twice in test lessons. Haha 

 
I wavered a bit between "no" and "yes, but not well". I've been taught(ish) but never actually done much driving outside of those limited sessions. I could probably figure it out more or less if I needed to based on what I have been taught, but I haven't tried.

 
I used to be terrible at it until I inherited a stick-shift Saab 9-3. By far the most fun car I've ever owned and it forced me to properly learn how to drive stick-shift beyond what I'd learned in driving school. I drive an automatic now, but when I travel I usually rent a stick-shift because it's cheaper and after a rough first few kilometres my muscle memory kicks in and it's like riding a bike.

 
i LOVE driving stick, i've never owned an automatic, and don't plan on it (unless it's an additional vehicle and stick isn't an option)...in comparison, driving automatic is kinda boring (although still fun because i love driving), but when i'm driving an automatic, my left foot and right hand do twitch when i feel a shift coming up ha

 
Canbec said:
I used to be terrible at it until I inherited a stick-shift Saab 9-3. By far the most fun car I've ever owned and it forced me to properly learn how to drive stick-shift beyond what I'd learned in driving school. I drive an automatic now, but when I travel I usually rent a stick-shift because it's cheaper and after a rough first few kilometres my muscle memory kicks in and it's like riding a bike.
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My first car was a Saab 9-3 with a manual transmission. It was the car I learned to drive in. It was so much fun to drive. I raced my friend in his Lexus with a brand new engine and beat him in that thing and I give the transmission all the credit. 

The only manuals I've driven since then were test drives of cars I could not afford and when my dad briefly owned a manual VW Golf. What I wouldn't do to have a manual in my current, fully-paid-off car, but we all have to make little concessions.

 
Bucca of the Marish said:
My first car was a Saab 9-3 with a manual transmission. It was the car I learned to drive in. It was so much fun to drive. I raced my friend in his Lexus with a brand new engine and beat him in that thing and I give the transmission all the credit. 

The only manuals I've driven since then were test drives of cars I could not afford and when my dad briefly owned a manual VW Golf. What I wouldn't do to have a manual in my current, fully-paid-off car, but we all have to make little concessions.
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The transmission and the turbo made the 9-3 a beast considering the engine it had! I was so sad with GM killed off Saab 😢

 
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Canbec said:
The transmission and the turbo made the 9-3 a beast considering the engine it had! I was so sad with GM killed off Saab 😢
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GM didn't kill it, the US government did, after the financial crisis when they partially nationalized GM and Chrysler, since it wasn't profitable. Same thing they did with Oldsmobile and Pontiac.

So it's Obama's fault Saab no longer makes cars.

 
Best gift my parents ever gave me was buying me a cheap first car that was stick. Especially nice because the transmission was already pretty shot anyway so nobody was bothered when I changed like an idiot.

Very happily drive automatic now but still can do it in a pinch. It is great for auto theft security!!

 
David Smittsen said:
I learned on manual. I also ride a motorcycle thats manual but it's been a while since I drove a manual car
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i ride too...same concept, although it's a little different than stick in a car, although they each have their little quirks (like that hitch in the shift when you're putting a car in reverse, and that half-step between 1st and 2nd when you're trying to put a bike in neutral)...although knowing how to ride prevented what couldve been a disaster for myself and others...PA offers classes for people people to get their Class M license, and one of the things that they stress in that class is that if you have to slow down really quickly, downshift and let the motor and tranny do most of the braking; if you just use the brakes, you're likely to go into a skid and dump the bike...so anyway, i was driving through a town on a busy friday night with a couple of my friends, and the brake line in my Jeep completely blew out and i lost all braking power, so that training about downshifting kicked in and i used that to get off main street and into a parking lot a couple of streets over...it made for a really interesting story (and some expensive repairs), but fortunately no one was harmed (and outside of me and my friends in the Jeep, i dont think anyone else even realized what happened)

 
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