OT: Last time you drove a stick shift car?

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by 2oldTi

1990 Volvo 740 16 valve 4 speed manual with electric overdrive. One and only car. It just ticks all the boxes

Are you on SwedishBricks?

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by 9tubes

Good looking 993. I'm looking for a new daily driver so a 25 year old car is not in the cards. You should have no problem selling it since it's a 6sp.

Only reason not to DD a 993 is for the mileage accumulation and value depletion.

Not so much of a concern with a 996 or Boxster/Cayman...

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by Hindmost

Since I was 16 years old I've been one of those compulsive 'it's got to be a stick' guys. Whenever I get trapped in local stop and go traffic (which hasn't been often lately) I wonder: what was I thinking?

I've owned about 18 cars since my first in 1970(61 VW Beetle). ALL have been manual. Last manual was 2013 Jetta SW/TDI..'diesel-gate' and traded for 2017 GSW/S/4Motion...got a DSG/'auto'...at .7 offa century..MUCH easier, more better...glad it's NOT a manual. MOST driving in city traffic....YMMV and all that...

[veloduffer]

The car that I didn’t like driving a stick was the VW Microbus. Super long shaft and throw, so vague that it could difficult at first to know which gear you were in.

I also had a Saab 96 in college with a 4-speed on the column. Not a smooth gearbox either. It was a 2-strike engine so I had to mix outboard oil with the gas. Oh, manual choke as well.


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[SoCalSteve]

End of 2016 when I sold my 7 speed stick 911.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showp...93&postcount=1

Bought a luxury sedan to replace it, I’d never own a stick shift car again. ( I’ve probably owned 10-15 since I started driving ). First car was a 65 VW bug.

[tellyho]

An hour ago! Have always had one of our cars a standard. Once we need to replace it, though, it's electric. RIP standard transmission.

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by tellyho

Once we need to replace it, though, it's electric. RIP standard transmission.

Once it's electric, there's no transmission.

[Louis]

Originally Posted by C40_guy

Once it's electric, there's no transmission.

It will be interesting to see how long the IC engine folks (and I may be one of them, despite also thinking of myself as a tree-hugger) manage to hold out against the electric wave.

[Nessism]

My rule of thumb was 4 cylinder = manual transmission. The newer 4's, particularly with turbo, have upset that equation though.

My son wants a manual in the worst way, even though he's never owned one. He recently graduated college and I gave him some money towards a car so he's scheming. Living in So Calif, with the horrific traffic, makes a manual car more questionable, but he doesn't care and I'm not trying to talk him out of it. His plan is a BRZ by the end of the year. I've already volunteered to drive it home from the dealership for him!

[Louis]

Originally Posted by Nessism

My rule of thumb was 4 cylinder = manual transmission. The newer 4's, particularly with turbo, have upset that equation though.

My son wants a manual in the worst way, even though he's never owned one. He recently graduated college and I gave him some money towards a car so he's scheming. Living in So Calif, with the horrifical traffic, makes a manual car more questionable, but he doesn't care. And I'm not trying to talk him out of it. His plan is a BRZ by the end of the year. I've already volunteered to drive it home from the dealership for him!

BRZ's very cool*, but is that maybe a bit too sporty?

How about a Mini Cooper? I just checked and they still have a manual option.

*In retrospect, I probably should have gotten that instead of my garage-queen '73 GTV...

[CAAD]

I daily my Focus RS. Plan on never getting rid of it. The last of an era.

[robin3mj]

Wife and I both only ever had manual cars until kids two and three arrived on the same day a few years ago and we bought a Sienna as a much needed second car.

Then a year later I spent an hour at the VW dealer and traded in our 8-year old manual diesel Jetta wagon for a new gas/auto version of the same for about $500 due to the Volkswagen diesel scandal. The right decision but we miss it.

Thinking about a manual Miata in 2022 if things shake out nicely.

[Mark McM]

Originally Posted by C40_guy

Once it's electric, there's no transmission.

Some EVs do indeed have transmissions. Electric motors can operate over a much wider range of rpms than IC engines, but that doesn't mean they maintain full power/efficiency over that entire range.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/22...-a-good-thing/

Of course, if multi-gear transmissions are used in EVs, they won't be shifted manually.

[RacerJRP]

My wife's daily has a manual transmission. I have 5 vehicles myself, and of them, only one is an auto.

...The way it should be!

[a4racer]

a few hours ago.

2014 981 Cayman S, 6 speed, Guards Red! Love it.

To chime in on the electric car comments as well--one of my other cars is a 2018 Nissan Leaf which I quite enjoy driving as well!