Cars & Transportation Learning to drive manual

[Plugger35]

I really don't understand some people with this mentality. Does driving NEED to be fun?

Sure, if you're driving along the Great Ocean Road or through the hills of the Dandenongs, driving a manual would be fun. But for a Uni student who's destinations consist almost exclusively of a 10 minute drive to the train station, mate's houses and the occasional drive to the city/Prahran on the freeway, why is a manual car necessary to have fun? All I care about is safely getting from A to B.

Driving doesn't need to be fun, I wouldn't say driving a manual is fun but it just feels more like driving a car than driving an auto where you just press the accelerator and brake which a monkey could probably do.

My current car is an auto and it's definitely easier if you're just driving around town but I do miss driving a manual at times.

 

[BluesMan]

Wait so in Vic and NSW you can do every bit of driving and learning in an auto, get your licence, and then you're all sweet to drive a manual anytime? Wtaf!?

It's a totally different skill, just sounds like danger on the roads to me.

 

[Syd]

Driving a manual teaches driving skills as opposed to the point and shoot with an auto.

Can't drive a manual? Shouldn't have a licence imo

 

[peppy la pew]

The shit that I went through re clutches/gearboxes and all manner of shit in manuals over the first 30 years of driving ...well Manuals can GAGF...

Automatics dont have a gearbox ?

 

[peppy la pew]

Driving a manual teaches driving skills as opposed to the point and shoot with an auto.

Can't drive a manual? Shouldn't have a licence imo

Try and teach someone how to drive in 4WD on a boggy beach in an auto,

 

[The Dice Man]

I don't know a single person who has a manual car. What's the point?

Where I live I don't know a single person who has an automatic. Almost all people here drive manuals.

 

[Demosthenes]

Ten years ago I'd have said learn manual, now there is not a lot of point. Most people learn auto because they don't have ready access to a car with manual transmission. I own a manual, but I don't know anyone else who does.

Manual cars are underrated though. Aside from the fun factor they tend to be cheaper, and they have much lower theft rates.

 

[Cleavy]

real drivers drive manuals

 

[Syd]

Try and teach someone how to drive in 4WD on a boggy beach in an auto,

I taught my Mrs how to drive a manual in the Westfield Airport West carpark
Bunny hopping around shopping trolleys like a boss
Vale my gearbox

 

[peppy la pew]

I taught my Mrs how to drive a manual in the Westfield Airport West carpark
Bunny hopping around shopping trolleys like a boss
Vale my gearbox

Must've been expensive if you went through 1 gearbox for every marriage

 

[peppy la pew]

If a manual blows a gearbox you can whack it into neutral and tow it home,

 

[Syd]

Must've been expensive if you went through 1 gearbox for every marriage

Taught the first Mrs how to drive a manual in my 77 Mustang
THAT nearly invoked an early divorce on its own!
She reckoned I loved the car more than I did her*








* May have been true

 

[Gasometer]

Automatics dont have a gearbox ?

Well after 5 years of an auto, touch wood not one issue with the transmission.

 

[Gasometer]

But having bitched about them, manuals are the best to 'drive'....eg BMW Z3 manual was fun.

 

[the_interloper]

Haven't read the thread but I'm sure there are plenty of manual snobs in here?

 

[Syd]

Haven't read the thread but I'm sure there are plenty of manual snobs in here?

What does your husband drive?

 

[peppy la pew]

What does your husband drive?

A black auto Barina with an orange sash

 

[the_interloper]

What does your husband drive?

Doctor Colossus ?

 

[BALKAN]

just lol @ degenerates who can't drive a manual

 

[Scotland]

Nothing wrong with owning/driving an auto, but everyone should be forced to learn to drive a manual.

Actually I'd scrap auto/manual licenses altogether if people just learned how to ****ing merge.

 

[IschenkoUBeauty]

Wow what a sad generation. My nephew is getting his auto licence as well. At this risk of sounding like a Grandpa (38) in my day if you got an Auto licence you would be considered a complete soft**** and would not hear the end of it from mates. I guess society is becoming softer. What happens if you never learn to drive a manual and need to drive one in an emergency? What if you are stuck at an airport and can only hire a manual car?

Yep, society are soft and spoilt in a mambi-pambi culture.

 

[IschenkoUBeauty]

Manual cars will be extinct within 10 years, and self-driven cars will probably be the norm in 20 years.

Lol. Ever heard of a truck?

 

[Jobe Watson]

Lol. Ever heard of a truck?

Manual cars will be extinct within 10 years, and self-driven cars will probably be the norm in 20 years.

 

[SterlingArcher]

I don't know a single person who has a manual car. What's the point?

Proves nothing. I only know 2 people who have an auto and 1 is my elderly grandmother

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Proves nothing. I only know 2 people who have an auto and 1 is my elderly grandmother

Didn't say it proved anything. I just thought manual cars were for car enthusiasts, not everyday city drivers.