No driving a manual does not make you smarter, more skilled, a better driver or more of a car guy.

[SloRyd]

It’s got an iPad and electronic thruster booster sounds... face it boys we are riding in covered wagons

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[OnThree]

If they put that tech in a Mustang, sure. They haven't yet, except the Cobrajet 1400.

The Mach E is a "Mustang" tho

 

[friedmud]

Basically every time i get around "car people" . Yada yada....

I mean.... he's not wrong ;-)

 

[AceS550]

 

[IMadeYouReadThis]

Bump

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Bump

Wait. There is another form of status than being able to drive a stick?

 

[Burkey]

Lol at the auto guys justifying their purchase under the premise that “it’s faster”...
Here‘s a list of manuals that will wipe the floor with most of them. The fact that they cost about half as much as an S550 makes me wonder why if “being fast” is the goal, they didn’t just do it properly?

 

[Bikeman315]

No one cares about your velocipedes. If we're going down this route, here's a list of even faster things!

What I find most interesting about this list are the dates. No progress in almost 45 years.

 

[ice445]

What I find most interesting about this list are the dates. No progress in almost 45 years.

Spacecraft have gone a lot quicker. The new X1-B experimental plane craps on all of those figures, but it's unmanned. And NASA have done some testing with advanced scramjets that were running pretty impressive mach figures. The tech to make a human go faster has developed along since then, it's just been found that putting the human at those speeds was no longer necessary or desired.

 

[SloRyd]

We all know the rise in popularity of automatics was because people are lazy. End of story.

motorcycles are much quicker and still manuals.. yes planes are “automatics” and even faster... a rocket ship is even faster! A sailboat is a “automatic” and it’s slow as shit. I’m sure that big ass ship that got stuck in the canal was an “automatic”

The auto guys love their autos and the manual guys love their manuals, who the fuck cares, we are all driving Mustangs, so we all look a bit more handsome then the dbag driving the Prius next to us.

If you drive a Prius and I offended you, good.

 

[SloRyd]

Just sitting here waiting for @Mikthehun1 to respond.

 

[SloRyd]

I fully agree with you. Mustang's are great. Even electric Mustang's. The Mach-E just isn't a Mustang. Put that drivetrain in a proper fastback, and you have my attention. Maybe not my sale just yet, but definitely more appealing than the Electric Karen Mobile.

Ya I’m starting to see those things almost daily now..

I’m with you on the electrification, even go as far to think an awd option would be sweet.

We can sit here and debate till the end of time about the auto vs manual, but honestly good on Ford for giving us the option.

 

[ice445]

Ya I’m starting to see those things almost daily now..

I’m with you on the electrification, even go as far to think an awd option would be sweet.

We can sit here and debate till the end of time about the auto vs manual, but honestly good on Ford for giving us the option.

Yep, options make life exciting. It actually shocks me how high the manual take rate on the GT is though, apparently it's right around 50% most years. That's massive in the current automotive market.

 

[SloRyd]

What's the demographic driving them?

The ones I have seen have all been probably 35-50 yr old white guys

And they got paper plates too not Manufacture plates which I was seeing 3 months ago

 

[ice445]

Soy boys...

Most electric car buyers are tech nerds and equate it to having the latest phone. They're a cancer and insufferable to talk to about anything.

Like, I'm a tech nerd too, but at least I have good taste.

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