Also known as a millenial theft prevention device.
We can scratch the Corvette off the list now - the C8 only comes with a DCT.
My 16 Tacoma is a manual box.
My 16 Tacoma is a manual box.
So the word “stickshift” has been scratched from Car and Driver’s lexicon, replaced with the European term “manual gearbox”? Looks like they want the stickshift to be killed.
The only good EV is one in a car compactor.
When sitting next to one at a stop light rev your engine.
there’s no substitute for a stick shift...
automatic transmissions are for womyn.
Looking at the Jeep Gladiator....manual.
The 5 speed in my 2000 Civic works fine, thanks.
18 years ago I taught my daughter to drive it. She used to embarass boys who would just look and wonder what the heck it is. Great fun!
I still have my Civic ricer’ and Corvette in manual. Funny. My buds owns and runs a used car place and he literally sees teenagers staring at the stick shift for 10 minutes and figuring out how to start the car..
Put 140K on my BMW 325i clutch and 120K on my Honda CRX Si clutch.
The car that I want has to be diesel and stick. Only Germans offer this and they are very rare. I am looking at a two door,Golf TDI,6 Speed.
I’ll only be happy with “three on the tree”.
My first 3 cars were 5 speed Fords, and every single damn one of them had problems with the idler gears. I couldn’t even get the Mustang into 2nd gear by the time I sold it. Straight from 1st to 3rd!
I had nissan 350z that had the same problem starting to occur, so I sold tnat too. I’m glad to have an automatic, and slap shift autos are really quick, you don’t really need a manual transmission anymore.
Before you accuse me of tearing up transmissions, I bought all my cars quite used. I consider myself proficient at the skill. I never could afford transmission repairs.
Have owned only two vehicles in 45 years, both manual transmission. Would still be driving the first, if it hadn’t been stolen. Thoroughly enjoyed the experience, but am ready for an automatic for #3 (gettin’ ooold).
On the fire department that I retired from we had a 1927 LaFrance Fire Engine that we drove in parades. The thing had to be “double clutched” when downshifting. I learned how to do this because of my experience growing up with old farm trucks. There were only two people on the fire department who knew how. I was one of them, so got to drive it in parades.
When I was a state copper working in Cook County I was in Chicago in the Greektown restaurant area when my partner and I monitored a Chicago Police Dept flash message about a car jacking that had just occurred in the area within the last few minutes.
Just moments after we made note of it, we heard cars honking at a late model import that was moving slowly in the left lane, jerking and stopping as other cars swerved around it. Since it matched the description of the suspect vehicle, we made a felony stop, detained three suspects who had two pistols in the car, and notified CPD Tactical officers to meet us at the scene.
These suspects were subsequently identified as the offenders in the car jacking, and the reason for the erratic driving that had captured our attention was the fact that the ringleader driver couldn’t operate the 5 speed manual transmission in it very well. One of his accomplices was an 18 wheel truck driver who was entirely capable of driving it, but the boss said that he had always wanted to drive a stick shift and this would be his first chance, so he ordered his buddy to stand down and took the wheel himself.
As a result of this experience, my 2010 Hummer H3 has a 5 speed manual trans. The transmission also helps me to get the most performance from a relatively heavy vehicle with a relatively small engine. (3.7L 250 hp, but moving 4800 lbs).
We wouldn’t catch so many of these clowns if so many weren’t so damn stupid.
I have a 77 MGB that I use as semi daily driver. Wish it had OD but it’s fun to drive. My son is trying to talk me into dropping a 6 banger in it, but I may look for another to modify.
I picked up a 4 cylinder, 5-speed manual transmission, 2004 Mazda/Ford Ranger, non extended cab with only 18k miles and the original Continental tires on it. Paid only $2000 for it. Garage kept, headlights and tail lights still look new! The guys at the oil change place were awed by the condition under the hood with the plastic labels still on the brake lines.
Anyway, bought it to flip but totaled my F-250 so now it’s my daily driver, but I don’t know for how long. At 6’3” I have to pull over and get out of it if I need to get something out of my pocket. And it’s a really uncomfortable ride, plus the eternal shifting on my 23 mile commute. Great mileage though.
As a 5-speed you don’t shift into 5th gear until you hit 70 mph!