OT: Last time you drove a stick shift car?

[zap]

2012. VW Golf diesel in southern France.

[dookie]

'99 Miata, waiting for the kid in pickup line right now.

[Keith A]

Today, and almost everyday. '91 VW GTi 16v, '93 Nissan pickup, '02 Mazda Protege. Two of my three daughters have sticks...both of them are VW Jetta's, and my wife has no problem with a manual transmission.

I have never had a car that was considered "mine" that wasn't a manual transmission...and I've been driving since the late '70's. Our family has only owned three vehicles with automatics, and our current one is a '19 Forester.

[avalonracing]

Originally Posted by feFIFO

Same. Shift knobs need dimples.

And seats should be PLAID!

[sevencyclist]

I drive this to work everyday, including 4 hours ago.
2019-02-03 10.15.31 by sevencyclist, on Flickr

[PacNW2Ford]

Yesterday. But only because I haven’t driven today. Haven’t owned an automatic since my first car, which I sold in 1981. The streak might end with the next one.

[bob_in_pa]

Originally Posted by Keith A

'91 VW GTi 16v

I still have an '87 GTI 16v (that's in need of some love) and a garage full of spares. I started racing them, for a few years, when I stopped racing bikes. Bikes are so much easier!

-Bob

[Bruce K]

Last week.

Our 2002 Mini Cooper S is a 6 speed.

BK

[GonaSovereign]

Every day I drive. VW Golf R.

[91Bear]

Funny how the names have changed: When I started driving, a transmission with a driver actuated clutch was called a "standard". A few years later, these were re-named "manual" transmissions. These days they're called "millennial anti-theft devices".

I'm not a Millennial but I do get tired of all the Millennial put-downs. It's ageism. It's not their fault that they didn't grow up with "standard" transmissions. Times change. I doubt more than very few of us know how to drive a Model T. They are "non-standard" and complicated to the modern driver. Let's give the Millennials a bit of a break, ok?

{steps down from my soap box}

[pjm]

Yes, that pesky shifting gets in the way of texting.

[mcteague]

Yesterday! MX-5 Miata.

Tim

[likebikes]

this morning.

i’m a millennial and i’ve never owned an automatic. probably will be that way until internal combustion engines are banned and everything is electric.

[2000m2]

This morning on my way to the pool.

[benb]

I had only manual transmission cars & motorcycles from 1999 when I bought my first car (I never had a car till after I got out of college) till 2012.

Since then I've had a Subaru Outback, traffic had gotten so bad that the manual wasn't super fun, and the Outback manual is/was supposedly not very good.

I haven't missed it that much, cause my car is not an engaging car anyway.

I do REALLY hate automatics, but my Subaru is a CVT, which I find much less annoying. It's not about how fast a transmission is or is not but more that the CVT never acts like an idiot, and I find regular automatics regularly act like an idiot.

I have zero interest in ever buying another internal combustion engine vehicle so it's highly unlikely I'll be driving anything with a manual transmission again.

I know a couple people who have a car with a manual transmission still but for the most part most people I knew had gotten rid of them long before I did.

Even if we weren't going away from internal combustion engines there are additional modern things that are more easily controlled with automatic transmission engines. Fuel economy & emissions are more easily controlled when the computer has taken over what happens during and around a shift. On some cars the behavior of the manual has gotten annoying in recent years as the computer tried to maintain fuel economy/emissions across the driver's shift.