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In another sure sign of the apocalypse, Heard this on the wireless on the way to work this am. https://www.thedrive.com/news/30774...th-manual-transmissions-in-the-us-reportLast quarter, EVs such as Teslas, Nissan Leafs, Chevy Bolts, and others accounted for 1.9 percent of all cars sold in the U.S. while vehicles equipped with the stick accounted for just 1.1 percent, which is an all-time low. Jominy points to "the discontinuation of many compact and subcompact sedans where manuals were purchased primarily as a lower cost of entry to a new vehicle," for the manual gearbox's latest decline. As the number of new cars available with a manual continues to dwindle, Jominy warns enthusiasts to get their hands on those manual-equipped sports sedans, track toys, muscle cars, and Jeeps while they still can.I currently don't have a manual shift car/truck but will when we leave here. I'll admit after having to commute to and around Baltimore/DC/Northern VA for years I went automatic years ago except for the Alfa toy car and that's been gone for 7 but in retirement away from here I'll have another.
If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Campfire Savant
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I like a standard, I’ve always owned a jeep, had four in my lifetime. All three of my kids learned to drive the 89 I still own. I bought all three of them new Toyota small trucks for their first vehicles so they know how to drive a standard. There are a lot of people that can’t drive a standard transmission.
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I tried to teach my daughter how to drive a manual
I gave up when I saw smoke coming out of the steering wheel.
Sold that car about a month later.
have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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Very hard to find any vehicle with a stick. Even semis now are mostly automated transmissions.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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Campfire Ranger
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Have had 7 Vettes, the last one not being a stick. It is still more than a little fun to drive. NBD, don’t miss the shifting. Nor do I miss those who have never driven a stick pulling up a couple inches off my back end on a steep hill.
Don’t miss open sights all that much either. Would miss not having computers, even the one on my wrist. Don’t miss arctic buckle boots for hunting or wall phones, or....
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laissez les bons temps rouler
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Hills and sticks are interesting, mostly flat around Houston.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Ha!! When I was a young driver, I’d stop at a front yard yard to check on old hot rods for sale.
Look in the window...”awwwwe man it’s a goddamm automatic,,,....fuggin grandma car....nevermind”
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I drove a 4-speed dodge power wagon to high school. Lots of steep hills around here in town. Many downtown traffic lights are on hills. I’d always give the bump kissers a 5ft rollback checkfire. Their eyes would get real big when they’d side a 4ft tube steel bumper eye level with their windshield. 👍
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Campfire Outfitter
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I’ve had four vettes. The last two sticks. They’re a lot more fun. That includes my current 7 speed manual.
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Campfire Ranger
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I lament the passing of the manual transmission. When I acquired one so equipped (Saab) after having been away from having to use both feet to drive for many years, I was reminded of how much I missed being more interactive with my vehicle. In the process of reacquainting myself I also remembered how much fun I used to have driving for driving's sake. And then a nifty vintage British machine caught my eye last year and I found myself with two cars with clutches to push. My left leg hasn't gotten so much exercise since I won the Ass Kicking Contest in 1996.
Pugs' reference to the locale of our respective abodes does point out my only complaint regarding a clutch-driven car- f*cking interminable traffic jams demanding I travel a half-mile over 20 minutes by riding the clutch. Not every day, but often enough to get my inner road rage percolating. But then the weekend arrives, the sun comes out, and I settle behind the wheel of the MG, and shed the week's cares away by stirring the gearshift on a twisty back road.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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Campfire Kahuna
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My '08 Dodge diesel is a stick. These days, though, there are no pickups from 1/2 ton on up through at least the 1 ton with sticks. The Dodge diesel was the last holdout and now it's gone, too. We occasionally hear about someone planning to make an electric pickup. If there's even 1 sold, that's more than 0 so the OP would be true.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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I’ve had four vettes. The last two sticks. They’re a lot more fun. If you ever decide on a C8 you are going to have less fun.
laissez les bons temps rouler
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Last stick I had was a 93 f150 with a 300 straight six
Was my ‘roofing truck’. The stick made that truck, great for pulling trailers full of tear-off, cordwood, lumber.
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Last edited by hanco; 02/21/20.
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I miss my stick shifts. My wife had 2 Dodge Stratus 2 doors with a 5 speed manual. Fun to drive , low to the ground and 39 mpg. with the 4 cal. I wish they made more .
But the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, Gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law. Galations 5: 22&23
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My everyday car (a Toyota), two of my pickups, my dump truck, my fire truck, and my Miata are all stadard transmissions. My 2017 Ram is an automatic because it's all I could find. While there are a lot of things I like about the new pickup, the transmission is not one of them. When I want the truck to be in third gear, I want it to be in third gear NOW; not when the goddam computer decides to put it there. Same thing with the engine brake; when I turn it on, that means I want it to start taking effect now and until I want it to stop. GD
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Still have one, 02 Nissan Frontier.
FJB & FJT
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Campfire 'Bwana
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'14 Tacoma here with 6 speed manual......hard to find too...... Just more fun than an auto.....honest 18 mpg average too with 20+ on hwy
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I don't miss a stick shift. Any current auto can be run "like" a stick shift anyway, if that's what you want to do. I'll take an auto all day every day.
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the sales with both characteristics have been tanking
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