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Mine would be "Gf doesnt drive stick, so no need to worry about sharing" xD
My wife doesn't drive my car either. She can't drive manual and she treats her car like a garbage can so she almost never even sits in my car.
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My wife has driven my Bullitt. Last time she reported "Baby, I went up to 4th gear this time!". :)
 

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Us older folks - at least generally - have to accept our share of the blame for that happening. Perhaps if we (collectively) hadn't been quite as ready to give up three-pedal driving as we approached middle-age, more of our kids and their kids would be driving MT as well.

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I think you romanticize manual transmissions too much. It isn't the nirvana you like to think it is.
I was a die-hard manual guy for over 60 years. I taught 3 siblings, 6 kids and 3 grandchildren how to drive manual. If they wanted to use my car, that was their only choice. Of this list of 13 drivers, including myself, only one grandson drives a manual transmission. The rest view manual transmissions as archaic. Several, who you would call enthusiasts, have DCTs and really like them. We did nothing wrong. It's just progress.

I'd like to see more people driving manual transmissions because it reduces the opportunity to play with their smartphones, but that isn't going to happen.
 
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Everyone that has ever lived under my roof had to learn to drive a manual. For the wife, it was easy, since growing up in Germany, that is the tranny the cars came with back in the day.
 

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It's not that millenials (and those even younger) can't drive a MT car. I think fewer of them do because nearly all of their exposure to driving has been of the 'slap it in 'D' and go' kind. Kids notice stuff like that even if it doesn't completely register.

At least two of our three grandkids who are driving now can drive a MT (the fourth isn't old enough to drive yet). The oldest is 23, and she's been driving MT for more than 6 years already. So does her younger half-brother, who now drives the Mazda 626 she once owned (that we bought new in 1995). So there's a glimmer of hope . . .


Us older folks - at least generally - have to accept our share of the blame for that happening. Perhaps if we (collectively) hadn't been quite as ready to give up three-pedal driving as we approached middle-age, more of our kids and their kids would be driving MT as well.


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Also depends what country you are in.

A lot of people in other countries can drive a manual.

But yeah, i agree. I taught myself on my first car. My honda s2000. Im 28 now.
 

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With an MT-82 D4 fourth gear can mean 100 mph, or even more. So I wouldn't scoff. 😁
Let it stretch it’s legs and third will take you past 120, fourth will have you on the limiter ... !

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I think you romanticize manual transmissions too much. It isn't the nirvana you like to think it is.
There's no romanticism or any feeling of belonging to some exclusive club going on here. It's about the way I prefer to drive, which for me is certainly more enjoyable with a 3-pedal MT.

And it may be as much about what I still don't like about automatics and the whole concept of letting automation take over for tasks that I am fully capable of doing without any such help. For me, the performance benefit of an automatic - which I'm not arguing - isn't worth what I'd be giving up to get.


I was a die-hard manual guy for over 60 years. I taught 3 siblings, 6 kids and 3 grandchildren how to drive manual. If they wanted to use my car, that was their only choice. Of this list of 13 drivers, including myself, only one grandson drives a manual transmission. The rest view manual transmissions as archaic. Several, who you would call enthusiasts, have DCTs and really like them. We did nothing wrong. It's just progress.
You and I did our part but I doubt that the same could be said for most of our contemporaries, and that's the point I was trying to make. Both of our kids had to learn how to drive a MT, else they wouldn't have even got any practice driving on their permits in with either of us sitting right seat.


When I'm driving, doing all the mechanical tasks that make up driving is exactly what I want to be doing at that time. Don't care about "being connected", don't even think about the fact that I've got a phone in my pocket. I'm afraid the genie is out of the bottle for the younger drivers on that, and I don't think it's going get stuffed back in without a massive struggle.


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Millennials are 24-39 years old. Plenty of people in their 30s can drive a manual. Lol
of course they can but is still fun to pick on then lol being a old bastard don't have a lot to do
 

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you had the right up bringing lol
Hes lucky, i didnt learn until 21-22 (old friend at a Ford dealer, lessons for Monsters with Classmate, Countless test drives, etc)

Hopefully my future kids can be like him
 

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Always wanted to learn stick, from when I got my permit to now. Ironically, after I got an estimate on my FiST and a quote on a new HPP Mustang, it got hit in the driver rear door and set me back a couple of weeks. I got stuck with a basic Sentra for a day with a legit dash rattle. Asked for another car and got a Charger.....the most boring 2 weeks of my driving life. I felt so disconnected from the car. Literally lost sleep while my car was getting fixed and reminiscing about a new Mustang (woke up thinking about it too).

While I was thinking of what flavor of Mustang to own, I thought of an auto, but after driving one for a couple weeks (for me) I definitely prefer to control what I drive and have a connection to it as well (even if it is a clunky MT82).
 

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Always wanted to learn stick, from when I got my permit to now. Ironically, after I got an estimate on my FiST and a quote on a new HPP Mustang, it got hit in the driver rear door and set me back a couple of weeks. I got stuck with a basic Sentra for a day with a legit dash rattle. Asked for another car and got a Charger.....the most boring 2 weeks of my driving life. I felt so disconnected from the car. Literally lost sleep while my car was getting fixed and reminiscing about a new Mustang (woke up thinking about it too).

While I was thinking of what flavor of Mustang to own, I thought of an auto, but after driving one for a couple weeks (for me) I definitely prefer to control what I drive and have a connection to it as well (even if it is a clunky MT82).
Its only clunky if you haven't upgraded to barton hybrid 3, or mgw. its a few hundred bucks, but worth its weight in gold, pair it with BG synchroshift ii and its be butter smootheeerrrrst.
 

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So back in 2006 I bought a new Civic Si. Those cars only come with a mansmission. Had to wait 4 months to get the car as they were limited. So in the meantime, my brother taught me how to drive stick in his wife’s Z24 Cavalier and a buddy let me practice in his Del Sol. 13 years with my Civic Si until I sold it last year for the Mustang. Still had the stock clutch. I’ll only drive stick now.
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