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You 'murican? Anyway, you feel closer to the machine with a good manual (e.g. MX-5), it's for sports cars having the pleasure of driving as main purpose. It's a

You 'murican? Anyway, you feel closer to the machine with a good manual (e.g. MX-5), it's for sports cars having the pleasure of driving as main purpose. It's also cheaper, lighter and more reliable. Auto should be used for all the other cars (including performance cars, where you want your mind focused on stuff other than shifting; true sequential is king there, though).

theanonymousone 2y ago
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theanonymousone 2y ago
Isn't it an actually American thing to "feel closer to the machine"?
- a-french-anon 2y ago
  Why would you think that? True sports cars (not muscle cars) are an European and Japanese thing. Cf https://paulgraham.com/usa.html https://paulgraham.com/usa.html really.
devilbunny 2y ago
In the US, it's often more expensive to get a manual if you are at all picky about options - very few are made, so gearheads end up scouring the entire country to find a car in the right color, right options package, etc. You might end up with another $2000 in shipping, and the dealers have little incentive to move the cars off the lot (they don't have many if any, and some manual-transmission lover will pay near sticker). I've driven manual cars but never owned one. Other than transmission fluid changes (rare), though, I've never had to fix an auto transmission. They're pretty reliable. My current one is at about 260k km, 24 years old (previous owner burned out engine and transmission at ~100k km on car by not using towing mode to tow, so car has more on it than that).
- magnetowasright 2y ago
  I was watching a sort of car review channel and they said 4% of (new) car sales in the US are manual. I was wondering why so few of the amazing sports cars they were reviewing were manual; they just couldn't get their hands on manual versions. There was one astounding model (can't remember) that simply didn't make a manual version at all. It's probably quite silly how shocking I find all of this. I just do not at all understand the point of a so-called sports car (especially the expensive ones!) that's not a manual! What's the point?! I genuinely do not understand why anyone would want an automatic sports car. I don't have to understand; I'm not the arbiter of anything let alone others' enjoyment of cars. I am still confused tho lol

theanonymousone 2y ago

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theanonymousone 2y ago

Isn't it an actually American thing to "feel closer to the machine"?

a-french-anon 2y ago
Why would you think that? True sports cars (not muscle cars) are an European and Japanese thing. Cf https://paulgraham.com/usa.html https://paulgraham.com/usa.html really.

devilbunny 2y ago

In the US, it's often more expensive to get a manual if you are at all picky about options - very few are made, so gearheads end up scouring the entire country to find a car in the right color, right options package, etc. You might end up with another $2000 in shipping, and the dealers have little incentive to move the cars off the lot (they don't have many if any, and some manual-transmission lover will pay near sticker). I've driven manual cars but never owned one. Other than transmission fluid changes (rare), though, I've never had to fix an auto transmission. They're pretty reliable. My current one is at about 260k km, 24 years old (previous owner burned out engine and transmission at ~100k km on car by not using towing mode to tow, so car has more on it than that).

magnetowasright 2y ago
I was watching a sort of car review channel and they said 4% of (new) car sales in the US are manual. I was wondering why so few of the amazing sports cars they were reviewing were manual; they just couldn't get their hands on manual versions. There was one astounding model (can't remember) that simply didn't make a manual version at all. It's probably quite silly how shocking I find all of this. I just do not at all understand the point of a so-called sports car (especially the expensive ones!) that's not a manual! What's the point?! I genuinely do not understand why anyone would want an automatic sports car. I don't have to understand; I'm not the arbiter of anything let alone others' enjoyment of cars. I am still confused tho lol