I mean it costs less, is more gas effecient, and makes the car more fun to drive. It's not even that hard it just takes a day to learn then after a month of driving it on the street it's second nature. I learned it when i was 13 years old! so it can't be that hard.
2007-01-31 11:10:18 · 15 answers · asked by wulfgar_117 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
The only way i would switch to an automatic is if they stopped making standard cars. You have much more control over a standard car.
Hope this helps. :-)
2007-01-31 11:21:54 · answer #1 · answered by .o0O O0o. 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
So who says you can't? All the reasons you gave are good. However, the smoothness of an automatic car taking off from a light is not to be sniffed at. Quite different from a grabby clutch--so often the case with manual. Then there is the incompatibilty with the driving of other vehicles, predominantly automatic. You want to shift to get to the next gear but the guy ahead is perfectly happy at any point on the graph. It's aesthetics man! Dog does not live by bread alone! And with a five speed automatic the mpg difference diminishes.
Meantime, I'm with you driving a stick but not a fanatic.
2007-01-31 19:31:55 · answer #2 · answered by richard d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manual Cars are awesome. The thing is that AT is intelligent. This causes the gearbox to change the gear at the programmed limit of RPMs. With MT you can do whatever comes to your mind blowing the RPMs if you want: To approach the maximum of the gear performance. Well as you can see, most of the race cars don't use AT, they're all MT excluding the Semi AT that is mostly the same, shift changes in the steering wheel without clutch. I would say that it is much comfortable to drive AT, but Car enthusiasts are always sure of driving a MT
2007-01-31 19:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by JMG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First I have three cars with sticks. Now for your question. There a pain in the butt in slow traffic. I can't agree on them being more fun. My favorite car runs an auto. Gas mileage I don't care. And now that the other person brought it up. After driving a semi all day I had enough of a standard trans.
2007-01-31 19:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love driving manual cars, but in the fast paced life we live it is difficult to eat, talk on the phone AND shift your car in traffic. But seriously, don't do that stuff, if you'r driving, you need to concentrate on driving. The only thing that gets annoying is stop and go traffic, like when you'r in the moving parking lot on the freeway. That's why I drive an auto now.
2007-01-31 19:16:30 · answer #5 · answered by nick 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because I drive for a living, mostly 18 speeds and after a while shifting gears all the time kinda sucks.
2007-01-31 19:16:36 · answer #6 · answered by misc 75 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people physically cant handle it, or mentally cant handle doing two things at once.
Personally I love it - I currently drive a BMW 5-series - cant get enough driving with that car... I love having a manual transmission...
2007-01-31 19:19:29 · answer #7 · answered by MrKnowItAll 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i like manual cars the only bad parts is you have to replace the clush every now and then and some times the in city driveing it gets me bad but i like it alot more then a auto trans
cus when your at a red light and some one is looking over and your just like try me i feal like the manual cars go faster to
2007-01-31 19:19:44 · answer #8 · answered by davedebo198305 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
novelties wears off after awhile.I remember after driving 10 - 15 speeds all day long.
I'd get off work, get in my caddy at the time,which was an automatic ,I found myself air shifting and searching for the imaginary clutch.
2007-02-01 00:19:31 · answer #9 · answered by Skull 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i would not wanna drive anything else than my manual tranny focus at home.
i drive semi, and unfortunatly i just had to switch trucks, i now have a 12 speed auto-shift....
rather have my super-10 back
2007-01-31 19:21:18 · answer #10 · answered by magiceye81 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋