Stick shift = anti-theft device.
The yuts / didndus can’t drive them.
I haven’t driven a manual transmission since 2014. There are times I miss it.
I have two ‘05 Jetta m/t TDI s/ws and two ~5 yr old Golf m/t AWD turbo gas s/ws.
A lifetime supply most likely.
FMCDH....
Well, most people don’t read the manual, but they still need it. ;)
Jettas were junk and still are.
The manual will probably be gone for the 2025 model year.
Shame to get old and stiff so that a stick is a burden. While today’s automatics are superior to sticks, I guarantee I paid better attention to driving in a stick compared to a lazy Lexus.
My first new car was a 1977 VW Rabbit “Champagne Edition” that had a 1.6L inline 4cyl and a 4 spd manual with front wheel drive. That little guy was a hoot to drive. I lived in Alaska at the time and I got two speeding tickets in Anchorage in the first two months I owned it. With proper tires it was an awesome winter car as well.
Automatic transmissions suck, as do nearly all new vehicles now. Insanely overcomplicated technology in pursuit of miniscule improvements in efficiency and emissions.
They are literally putting ten times as much into adding junk as the junk will ever save.
Automotive technology peaked in the late 90s or early 00s.
Well, there was this that a lot of folks missed. I already have my last vehicle though. Zoom zoom!
https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/ss-2017
Are there any stick Passats ?
Loved my stick
had hip problems and shoulder problems
Went to pt for months no relief
I asked whether it could be my stick.
They said no
traded for a jeep automatic Sahara
Pains gone in three weeks
I now realize that the PT people and the young doc HAD NO IDEA OF WHAT USING A STICK ENTAILS.
As of three months ago, I’m driving an automatic for the first time in 35 years. It has taken all of the fun out driving.
Have had manuals almost perpetually all my life, as is now with the GTS in my garage.
Is this true in Europe too? I have never driven a car in Europe but I was under the impression that most cars there are stick shift.
I have a 2008 F-250 with an auto, and regret not holding out for a stick, but I had to get a pickup right then. If I had known they were going to stop making F-250s with manual transmissions, I would have held out.
Our other two cars are manuals, and all the cars I ever owned before were manuals. Don’t want a new VW, though. I drove 60s-vintage VWs for nearly 20 years and I’d love to have one now, but I can’t afford it.
Even 40 or 50 years ago, it seemed like most kids couldn’t drive stick, and it’s a lot worse now. I taught a 20-something coworker how a few years ago, as she was going to Spain for a vacation and renting a car with an automatic was going to cost her a lot more, like $500 more for a few weeks. She caught on pretty quick. Not expert, but that comes with practice.
Trying to teach a girl to drive a stick shift, can be costly.
I owned nothing but stick shifts from 1983 to 2015, then I had to make an emergency purchase and bought a Honda Accord automatic. Now own a Toyota with automatic. I love manuals but I was thankful to have an automatic in the summer of 2020 because with all the rioting going on that summer I felt like the hand I normally would have shifted gears with needed to be fully gripping my Glock 19.
I haven’t owned a vehicle with an automatic transmission since 1979.
2019 Fiesta ST, Zetrag 6 speed. Mine has 4,500 miles on it. Rarely been in 6th.