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Originally Posted by Infernal
From the outside, listening to americans talk about manual/auto transmissions is pretty funny.
It seems like people like to exclaim that they can drive a manual car like it is a hard thing to do, when im pretty sure that most of the other continents on this planet have majority MT drivers in their countries and dont think anything about it.
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Originally Posted by madfast
QFT
in the US, manual tranny lovers act like snobs. like knowing how to drive stick is somehow an exclusive talent. it makes them feel cool, and boosts their ego...
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Alright I'll bite on this one.
Can you really blame the manual lovers for this? I could very easily say that people that have only driven automatics think that manual driving is impossible in a city or bumper to bumper traffic... When I would classify it as a slight driving inconvenience depending on the engine size.
The majority of the few new drivers are taught on automatic cars (the vast majority of cars owned in North America are auto), I myself started on one.
I have never been face to face with a person calling me a snob or an idiot for driving a manual transmission car. It's always been met with a certain amount of respect for buying my first car with a stick and "sticking" with it to the my second. If people find that arrogant then that's their opinion, though I would call them ignorant.
If owning an auto makes peoples lives easier then by all means go for it.