stick or auto?

What's your preference in cars? Stick or automatic?

  • stick shift

    Votes: 27 57.4%

  • automatic all the way

    Votes: 20 42.6%
  • Total voters
    47
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For cars, what's your preference?

I've only owned stick shift my whole life.
 
Some of my deaf friends say they can't drive a stick. But some of my other deaf friends are skilled.

The ones who can;t seem to think it's something you need hearing to do well. I don't agree with them. I think it's something anyone can do if they want to.
 
I've had many, many! cars and trucks, and I've always loved the stick shift....(most all of them were). Now I've got an automatic, but again, my next car is gonna be a stick shift. ....I also find it strange that a lot of women can't drive a stick shift!?....I've also driven a 10-speed big UHaul truck but Never the semi's! (too big)....
 
I prefer stick shift and have owned all of them with stick shift but my Honda is currently automatic.
 
We like stick shift but on our both Jeeps are automatic. It don't matter to us though.
 
I can drive stick shift..miss it!

Funny story!

When we got our Jeep Cherokee 7 years ago, and when I start to drive, once a while I put my feet on clutch and realized it is not there! LOL! Good memory though! :)
rockin'robin said:
I've had many, many! cars and trucks, and I've always loved the stick shift....(most all of them were). Now I've got an automatic, but again, my next car is gonna be a stick shift. ....I also find it strange that a lot of women can't drive a stick shift!?....I've also driven a 10-speed big UHaul truck but Never the semi's! (too big)....
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hubby much prefers stick and some of his favorite cars have been stick shifts. I remember, after I had been seeing him for few years, just after college grad., he attempted to try to teach me to drive in one of his beloved stick-shift cars :lol:, needless to say, it didn't work well, although nothing "bad" happened. The following year I took adult driving course as requirement to get job and the car I learned in was 4-door blue Chevy something-or-other...automatic. Since then I've never learned to drive stick, wouldn't mind trying again.
Vehicles currently auto-
 
I voted stick shift but, I've never driven an automatic. I have a feeling I would prefer automatic.

Stick shift?! Never heard the term before, over here we say "manual"
 
I learned to drive a stick and owned one for a while. In traffic there is way to much clutching. It gets tiresome and wears out the clutch.
 
rockdrummer said:
I learned to drive a stick and owned one for a while. In traffic there is way to much clutching. It gets tiresome and wears out the clutch.
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Try driving a big truck where you have to double clutch and shift five times to get to 25 mph sometimes. :shock: It took my brother about six months before he was good at it.
 
have any of you torn up your transmission? I've always assume stick require some hearing or you will tear up your transmission.

But looking at the speed meter helps too. My mom always drove a Ford truck with a stick. In the city.
 
My car is 11 yrs old (manual) and I've replaced the transmission once. I don't think one has to be hearing to know when its going out. When you don't transfer gears correctly you can feel it easily and when transmission cable starts to fail it is noticeable as well.
 
I have driven both automatic and stick/manual. I like both. I was fortunate that when my brother taught me to drive stick/manual he knew I wouldn't hear the sound of the motor to know when to change gears, so he taught me to use the tachometer. Maybe most people do that, but not where i live.

In my Japanese made car, the clutch gear stripped quite frequently and I was advised to get a different car. Since then I have only driven American made vehicles. My first stick was an 1984 Ford Ranger. My Japanese P.O.S. was an Isuzu I-Mark.
 
Lighthouse77 said:
have any of you torn up your transmission? I've always assume stick require some hearing or you will tear up your transmission.

But looking at the speed meter helps too. My mom always drove a Ford truck with a stick. In the city.
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Read the tachometer to shift. I don't think any manual transmission cars are without a tachometer.
 
i learned how to drive with a stick, but my car has automatic transmission so i've forgotten by now. i could probably pick up the stick again if i was given a car with one.
 
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