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I'm old enough that my first car (a Peugeot that had literally been on the way to a junkyard) had a manual choke in addition to the transmission, though even th
by Finnucane 4y ago
I'm old enough that my first car (a Peugeot that had literally been on the way to a junkyard) had a manual choke in addition to the transmission, though even then that was unusual.
My dad insisted that both my sister and I learn stick, and I have to say, I do kinda miss it. All auto-everything barely feels like driving.
- rbanffy 4y agoYou definitely feel more closely connected to the car than you do on an automatic. For me, at least, it was more of a youth thing - I don’t enjoy driving nearly as much as I did in my 20’s.
- karmanGO 4y agoMy first 14 years of driving was always with a manual car, after that I've driven an auto most of the time and 99% of the time I do miss the manual. After a while, it became, almost, automatic and wasn't much of a hassle in traffic or anything.
- vrc 4y agoI am not terribly old, but my dad insisted I drive stick (he grew up with a manual crank-start car in India), and all of my cars were manual until I went EV. I think I was far more attentive driving a manual, and that’s carried over but slowly fading. Just the awareness you need of your driving situation —- eg do I need to pass and does that require me to downshift? —- made me far more vigilant than I otherwise would have been.