[T.B. Yoits]

When I was a teenager, and perhaps a decade longer, no self respecting young guy would be caught dead driving an automatic. Even us girls often drove them.

I know a few female die-hard manual transmission drivers. Three stood out; one drove a Jeep, one was a speed demon in a sports car, and one drove an SUV. And they drove them well.

[Flaming Conservative]

I bought a stick shift geo prism around 1990; drove that car for about 12 years. It was a great car, but driving 100 miles a day, round trip, in mostly rush hour traffic got old, and I finally sold it.

[Tell It Right]

IMHO one thing a manual transmission is good at is it forces the driver to pay more attention to other cars. You have to be more ready to slow down if you’re going to smoothly press the clutch while pressing the brake.