Save the manuals! - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

zooki · 01-21-2014, 02:24 AM

So I taught my friend's 17 year old daughter how to drive a manual transmission car today(mine

). She didn't even know you had to use both feet when we started. But she's a quick learner. And it cost me just a few more gray hairs...LOL
I think everyone should know how to drive one. So the car companies will keep making them.

Rio · 01-21-2014, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by zooki

So I taught my friend's 16 year old daughter how to drive a manual transmission car today(mine

). She didn't even know you had to use both feet when we started. But she's a quick learner. And it cost me just a few more gray hairs...LOL
I think everyone should know how to drive one. So the car companies will keep making them.

My daughter learned to drive in my old '99 Porsche (stick) :-)

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993Fan · 01-21-2014, 03:02 AM

No need to save them -- manuals will make a come back some day as an additional-cost option when people realize how utterly boring perfectly executed shifts performed by a silicon chip really are.

Carlitoz3 · 01-21-2014, 03:07 AM

Going on 10 months with my frs, which I learned stick from. Couldn't agree with you more

ZionsWrath · 01-21-2014, 04:07 AM

I look forward to the day i can get a pdk for the same orcheaper than a manual on a brz priced vehicle. Until thenill save my pennies getting a manual and

dnieves · 01-21-2014, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by 993Fan

No need to save them -- manuals will make a come back some day as an additional-cost option when people realize how utterly boring perfectly executed shifts performed by a silicon chip really are.

I hope you're right (except for the additional cost part) -hopefully they'll be a resurgence for manuals (like vinyl records). But automatics that get better mileage than manuals (like the twins for example) and having to learn how to drive them are hard to beat for average Joe consumer.

mid_life_crisis · 01-21-2014, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by zooki

So I taught my friend's 17 year old daughter how to drive a manual transmission car today(mine

). She didn't even know you had to use both feet when we started. But she's a quick learner. And it cost me just a few more gray hairs...LOL
I think everyone should know how to drive one. So the car companies will keep making them.

I don't want to hear about it. At least they stayed in.

sato · 01-21-2014, 08:53 AM

Sad but possible true...

I know its cheesy but:

"Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go"

DarkSunrise · 01-21-2014, 09:01 AM

You're a good man. I've only attempted to teach two people how to drive stick -- my sister and my wife. I'm amazed I still have any hair left on my head.

Some of my friends have asked me to teach them, but I think I've only got it in me to teach one more person stick in my lifetime -- my future child, if I have one and he/she wants to learn.

Makes me appreciate my driving instructor who taught me how to drive stick. I can't imagine a job where you spend your whole day driving in a car with teens who are trying to learn stick. Thank you good sir.

nalc · 01-21-2014, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by dnieves

I hope you're right (except for the additional cost part) -hopefully they'll be a resurgence for manuals (like vinyl records). But automatics that get better mileage than manuals (like the twins for example) and having to learn how to drive them are hard to beat for average Joe consumer.

I'm curious as to how much of that MPG difference is automatic versus manual, and how much of it is simply due to different gearing between them, at least on the twins (where the auto has significantly taller gearing)

dtrop · 01-21-2014, 10:09 AM

Besides a semi-minor cost difference, the manual gearbox is kind of an obsolete technology in the practical world.

I think it will exist for a long time, but I don't think it will be relevant 50 years from now.

dem00n · 01-21-2014, 10:22 AM

PDK is the future.

Hail!

frs10 · 01-21-2014, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by dem00n

PDK is the future.

Hail!

yeah, ill let you old guys keep playing with that stick of urs...

dem00n · 01-21-2014, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by frs10

yeah, ill let you old guys keep playing with that stick of urs...

The stick is one of the biggest modern day phallic symbols.

01-21-2014, 02:24 AM	#1
zooki Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: waiting on a 2021... Location: Texas Posts: 770 Thanks: 190 Thanked 410 Times in 233 Posts Mentioned: 3 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Save the manuals! So I taught my friend's 17 year old daughter how to drive a manual transmission car today(mine ). She didn't even know you had to use both feet when we started. But she's a quick learner. And it cost me just a few more gray hairs...LOL I think everyone should know how to drive one. So the car companies will keep making them. __________________ 2016 4Runner Tail edition 2020 Camry 2020 RAV4 2013 Chevy 3500 4x4 Duramax 1999 Ford F250 Powerstroke, the tow rig 1969 Mustang, the fast car....(: Last edited by zooki; 01-21-2014 at 07:01 AM.

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