We have a standard transmission.
Here in the USA that is probably the best anti-theft device you can have.
I don’t think Gen-Xers and Millennials even know how to use manual window cranks much less manual transmissions.
Yeah. Mine resists learning to drive a stick, even though that’s the only car available at the nully hacienda.
The biggest disadvantage a vehicle with a manual transmission has is that they have virtually no resale value, a point that was driven home several times in negotiations for a car trade.
But it is a GREAT anti-theft device, as the perpetrator has little chance of learning the nuances of disengaging the clutch, moving the gear lever to the proper gear, and releasing the clutch in such manner as to pick up speed more or less smoothly, without killing the engine or causing excessive overrevving.
If you are good with the operation of a manual transmission, it is not necessary to even use the clutch once you are underway. Just let up slightly on the accelerator, slip the transmission into neutral, then with the throttle, match the engine speed to approximately that of the ground speed in that next particular gear, and the gears will slide into the next higher or lower ratio like a hot knife through butter. Double-clutching without the use of a clutch.
Syncro-mesh was the wussie’s way out, and destroyed the practice of this fine art.
‘I don’t think Gen-Xers and Millennials even know how to use manual window cranks much less manual transmissions.’
Not true. My 17 year old grandaughter has a car with a manual
transmission.
Here in the USA that is probably the best anti-theft device you can have.
While we were on vacation, someone broke into our house and among other things stole my stick-shift Beetle. She got it about a quarter-mile before someone helped her push it into a church parking lot. It cost the insurance company $1800 to replace the clutch in a practically new car.
“I don’t think Gen-Xers and Millennials even know how to use manual window cranks much less manual transmissions.”
This Gen-Xer thinks that automatic transmission should be banned :-). I’ve *never* owned an automatic :-).
You got me on window cranks though ... I love power windows.
Years ago the manual transmission used to be called the standard but that terminology no longer applies. My 5 spd Ford Ranger is a manual transmission. Getting lazy in my senior years now so next vehicle is probably an automatic trans. but most of my vehicles have been manuals which are very uncommon now.
My son started driving 3 on the tree at age 15. He was 12 or 13 when he started driving a normal floor shift manual. By the time he got on the public road, he probably had driven more miles than I had when I took my drivers test!
When my son’s car got totaled, he insisted that he had to get a car with a manual transmission. And, he did. Strangely enough, one of the ones he looked at was a Scion!
So if a snowflakes crashed into a lake they’ll drown cause they don’t know how to roll down the windows........
Classic