The few, the proud,...
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So many wasted words, while the information could have been more effectively presented in a simple list or table.
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@Axtremus said in The few, the proud,...:
I will not apologize for trying to better arts and letters for the benefit of humanity.
You should probably apologize for your approach.
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I learned on a stick shift car. Kind of a dying skill. I wonder if 25 years from now, any cars will have stick shift?
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I learned on a stick shift and drove one for over 20 years but I had to use my left hand so I get a bit confused over here. Thankfully the colonies don't reverse the break and throttle placement which would be really bad.
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I learned on a stick shift and drove one for over 20 years but I had to use my left hand so I get a bit confused over here. Thankfully the colonies don't reverse the break and throttle placement which would be really bad.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The few, the proud,...:
I learned on a stick shift and drove one for over 20 years but I had to use my left hand so I get a bit confused over here. Thankfully the colonies don't reverse the break and throttle placement which would be really bad.
But I have noticed that some right hand drive cars reverse the turn signal stick and the window wiper stick. So, every time you want to make a turn, you turn on your window wiper!!
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This is not exactly a "young" forum. I wouldn't be surprised if all of us (active participants of TNCR) learnt to drive using a manual transmission. The only exceptions I can think of are probably @89th and @Aqua-Letifer. It's just a function of age.
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Like riding a bicycle. Once it’s in muscle memory, u can do it immediately
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This is not exactly a "young" forum. I wouldn't be surprised if all of us (active participants of TNCR) learnt to drive using a manual transmission. The only exceptions I can think of are probably @89th and @Aqua-Letifer. It's just a function of age.
@Axtremus said in The few, the proud,...:
This is not exactly a "young" forum. I wouldn't be surprised if all of us (active participants of TNCR) learnt to drive using a manual transmission. The only exceptions I can think of are probably @89th and @Aqua-Letifer. It's just a function of age.
What's funny is IIRC both @Aqua-Letifer and I worked (before we met in college) on golf courses doing maintenance using a Cushman. That's 3-speed (left stick) manual transmission utility cart/vehicle. That's how I learned to drive stick, but admittedly every car I've owned/driven has been automatic and I've never had a desire to drive manual. In fact, I remember telling my parents when I was younger "I'd imagine before automatic transmissions were available, people driving stick shift probably thought 'I sure wish changing gears was automatic.'"
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British rental cars still generally have the stick - at least, they did when I rented one last year.
I was only joking
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@Axtremus said in The few, the proud,...:
This is not exactly a "young" forum. I wouldn't be surprised if all of us (active participants of TNCR) learnt to drive using a manual transmission. The only exceptions I can think of are probably @89th and @Aqua-Letifer. It's just a function of age.
What's funny is IIRC both @Aqua-Letifer and I worked (before we met in college) on golf courses doing maintenance using a Cushman. That's 3-speed (left stick) manual transmission utility cart/vehicle. That's how I learned to drive stick, but admittedly every car I've owned/driven has been automatic and I've never had a desire to drive manual. In fact, I remember telling my parents when I was younger "I'd imagine before automatic transmissions were available, people driving stick shift probably thought 'I sure wish changing gears was automatic.'"
@89th said in The few, the proud,...:
@Axtremus said in The few, the proud,...:
This is not exactly a "young" forum. I wouldn't be surprised if all of us (active participants of TNCR) learnt to drive using a manual transmission. The only exceptions I can think of are probably @89th and @Aqua-Letifer. It's just a function of age.
What's funny is IIRC both @Aqua-Letifer and I worked (before we met in college) on golf courses doing maintenance using a Cushman. That's 3-speed (left stick) manual transmission utility cart/vehicle. That's how I learned to drive stick, but admittedly every car I've owned/driven has been automatic and I've never had a desire to drive manual. In fact, I remember telling my parents when I was younger "I'd imagine before automatic transmissions were available, people driving stick shift probably thought 'I sure wish changing gears was automatic.'"
Keep it in neutral going down the 16th fairway, and your experiential speed is roughly 95 mph.
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British rental cars still generally have the stick - at least, they did when I rented one last year.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The few, the proud,...:
British rental cars still generally have the stick - at least, they did when I rented one last year.
Just last Friday they retired the Odyssey rental car computer system that we built at Heathrow for Europcar 32 years ago.
It was also used by Alamo, National and others here is the US and around the world.
And back then, my recollection was that most rentals there at Heathrow had a manual transmission, although the number of automatics was growing.
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On my recent trip to Vienna, rented a car for one day. When looking to reserve the rental car, the cheapest ones were all manual. Using an automatic added to the price quite a bit.
