I have had manuals for the last 40 years, presently I have a 2015 Audi A4 Quatro Premium with a 6-speed. When I dropped it at some valet parking here in S FL - I heard the punk valet call out to his colleague “It’s got a stick!”. I didn’t know if that meant he didn’t know how to drive it or if he was celebrating the fact that he had a chance to drive a manual. It is starting to look like I will not have the chance for my next car.
—”or if he was celebrating the fact that he had a chance to drive a manual.”
Out of the Parking Garage...30 seconds
https://youtu.be/_S7AyiVfNdA
Before i ever owned a car, the military had me take a course to learn driving 2.5 ton trucks with high and low ranges.
We would play trucker sometimes and shift between high and low gears while accelerating. Also learned how to shift without using the clutch, which came in handy years ago when the clutch linkage broke on my Corvette miles from home.