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I still enjoy driving a manual. I used to own the last full size blazer made with a manual transmission. I ordered it and had to wait 6 months before they would build it. It was the last one off the production line before they became known as Tahoes. I have a 2012 tacoma with 5 speed. The only downside is Toyota has used cheap clutches and pressure plates for many years. I just replaced mine at 37K miles. Toyota would have done it under warranty at 36K. Just my luck I got an extra 1K out of it.


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Originally Posted by Kodiakisland
I still enjoy driving a manual. I used to own the last full size blazer made with a manual transmission. I ordered it and had to wait 6 months before they would build it. It was the last one off the production line before they became known as Tahoes. I have a 2012 tacoma with 5 speed. The only downside is Toyota has used cheap clutches and pressure plates for many years. I just replaced mine at 37K miles. Toyota would have done it under warranty at 36K. Just my luck I got an extra 1K out of it.
Hmmmm. I have a 2005 V-6 with the six-speed manual and 255,000+ miles on the odometer and we are still on the clutch and pressure plate that came with it from the factory. Yours must be a 4-cylinder?


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Yeah. The 6 speeds use a different clutch than the 5 speeds. A lot of people aren't even getting 5K miles before they start slipping. I guess I was unlucky to make it past the warranty. There is a TSB out for the 4cyl/5spd for 2005-2013 models. I guess it is cheaper for them to replace than to buy a better product.


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can you put it in 3rd and start from a stop on ice? Can you lock it in 2nd or 3rd and lug it down to keep going up a hill in snow without a downshift? Will it allow you to rev to redline and hold if in above situation you find that full bore wide open is all that works and you cant stop or shift without getting stuck. If it will do all of those thats pretty cool. All the above is extreme but are real issues one will find. For normal everyday use any tranny will do, and an auto has some big appeal for many uses. I havent seen an auto that will allow that kind of abuse except an old style with a full manual valvebody. But I dont drive many of the latest vehicles.


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I think you can get one in a Tacoma.


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The "stick shift" used to be cool in high school.

I ordered a 5 speed for a sports car.

These days the auto seems to have taken over.

I really like the way my auto downshifts on steep down hill drives. We drive in NW CT where there are some twisty roads with hills.

The 5 speed Chrysler 300 with a console shift works so well! cool

I can just ease the lever to the side and back. So smooth, easy, cool when in drive.

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Originally Posted by micky
I think you can get one in a Tacoma.
The OP was looking for a 3/4 ton gasser. In that type, there are none any more.


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Originally Posted by Savage_99
The "stick shift" used to be cool in high school.

I ordered a 5 speed for a sports car.

These days the auto seems to have taken over.

I really like the way my auto downshifts on steep down hill drives. We drive in NW CT where there are some twisty roads with hills.

The 5 speed Chrysler 300 with a console shift works so well! cool

I can just ease the lever to the side and back. So smooth, easy, cool when in drive.

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Originally Posted by tzone
Originally Posted by Savage_99
The "stick shift" used to be cool in high school.

I ordered a 5 speed for a sports car.

These days the auto seems to have taken over.

I really like the way my auto downshifts on steep down hill drives. We drive in NW CT where there are some twisty roads with hills.

The 5 speed Chrysler 300 with a console shift works so well! cool

I can just ease the lever to the side and back. So smooth, easy, cool when in drive.

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Probably a dealer stock photo too, given the paper floor mats..............


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Automatics are starting to grow on me for the reasons stated: they hold speed on a down hill, and are easier on the ole body.

For serious work, and serious play, the manual is still the only way to go.


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I,ll take an auto, our hill to work is a very extreme grade nothing like losing forward momentum, on a hill with water on ice, and then having truck stall in a manual.

With an auto you can maintain some semblance of limited control.

Also in big snow and sand you do not lose ground when you shift.



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Originally Posted by tzone
Originally Posted by Savage_99
The "stick shift" used to be cool in high school.

I ordered a 5 speed for a sports car.

These days the auto seems to have taken over.

I really like the way my auto downshifts on steep down hill drives. We drive in NW CT where there are some twisty roads with hills.

The 5 speed Chrysler 300 with a console shift works so well! cool

I can just ease the lever to the side and back. So smooth, easy, cool when in drive.

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tzone,

What's the problem?

I have posted pictures of what I have hunted.

I was pointing out how enjoyable that 5 speed auto is. smile

The Porsche 5 speed only ran a few months before it's shift handle came out of the floor. The cup that held the ball at the other end wore out!


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Great pictue taken in june. Do you hav any from anything you've shot?


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Tzone,

Yes I do. However I sense that you will not respond to a normal discourse and I am sending you to ignore.


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Originally Posted by Dillonbuck
can you put it in 3rd and start from a stop on ice? Can you lock it in 2nd or 3rd and lug it down to keep going up a hill in snow without a downshift? Will it allow you to rev to redline and hold if in above situation you find that full bore wide open is all that works and you cant stop or shift without getting stuck. If it will do all of those thats pretty cool. All the above is extreme but are real issues one will find. For normal everyday use any tranny will do, and an auto has some big appeal for many uses. I havent seen an auto that will allow that kind of abuse except an old style with a full manual valvebody. But I dont drive many of the latest vehicles.


The Ford 6spd in the Superduty's will do all of what you described above in Manual mode.


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I will say this, you worry too much. The autos are not the auto trans your accustomed to 10 or`12 years ago. Used to be autos were mushy and acted like the vehicle was driving in sand. They are much tighter and more manual like no days. Add to that ALOT more reliability. I never hear any issues with the auto trans that are in either the superduty or the f150.

The advantage to a manual trans IMO was in the past they were simply just more reliable. If you have an auto thats just as reliable why not get it, unless its a mustang or corvette and you like to burn rubber every now and then. even then IMO when you get more than 5 gears in a hot rod its too much shifting and its not as fast as an auto.

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For straight line acceleration an auto will beat a manual every time. Manual comes into its own when the computer does not know what to do. In my examples that horse1 responded to many auto's get confused and do the wrong thing for the conditions. Also when pushing a corner hard they will shift at a bad time or not be there when you punch the throttle. Know several experienced truck drivers that love the auto's almost all the time. But when one needs to do something"weird" they cant do it. The newbee drivers all love not having to shift, since they cant, and dont understand the finer points of driving.


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Ford's Super Duty 6spd in "M" manual mode will hold 1, 2, or 3 for as long as you'd like from a dead stop to bumping on the limiter and won't shift until you bump the "+/-" button on the shifter stalk, lugging or screaming makes no difference. In 4, 5, or 6, it will hold them up to the limiter if you're running hard, but, it will downshift past any/all of them if you lug too far. Case in point, you're running down the highway in M/6 and forget to downshift coming up the off ramp. If you have to start from a dead stop and do nothing, it downshifts to M/2 on it's own, then it'll hold M/2 until you start working through the gears on the "+/-" button again.


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