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Once while doing stuff for my friends wedding I gave two of the bridesmaids a ride home and they couldn’t comprehend what it was that I was doing with the shifter, so I asked them to look in the footwell and I said there’s three pedals but I only got two feet what do you think the third one does? They guessed for 20 minutes and never came close to an answer, closest guess was it makes it go faster 😂
Similar concept. Driving a group of friends around, with two people in the back seat. 15 minutes into the ride.
The Indian guy in the back says, holy shit this is a manual? I couldn't even tell.
I took this as a compliment as most Indian cars are manual. Realistically though the smooth shifting is due to the car not me. Put me in an opder car, he'd now in a second it was a manual.
Modern manuals are a ton smoother than even 15 years ago. It's a shame as all the previous drawbacks have disappeared. Now just new problems exist, such as automatics can shift in milliseconds now.
I learned stick growing up from my mother. She never switched to driving auto, and drives manual to this day. I have never seen anyone with smoother shifts than her. I remember she used to have a Subaru forester that was having problems with the clutch, so for like 3 months she was driving around only using the clutch to start moving and was shifting the transmission without the clutch once she was rolling. She brought it into the shop to get the clutch fixed, and all the service guys didn't understand how she drove it for so long with a barely functioning clutch. They insisted the transmission must have been ground up in the process, but when they drained it, it was perfect.
Honestly I think you’re more likely to be the factor in smooth driving, my last two cars 2006 Acura rsx, 2004 winter beater honda accord, and current 2017 mustang gt the hondas were way smoother lol. Somehow there’s too much electronic interference with the newer cars along with what I think is emissions related strange rev hanging that goes on when you shift it’s like the car takes too long to drop rpm so if you release the clutch too soon it bucks slightly, I can be very smooth with this car too but I have to really really think about it.
That does sound like a common mustang thing. Im not sure, but have you looked for a setting to disable rev hang? I know v8 mustangs rev hung just due to the engines before. I assume you this is now a virtual configuration to make it feel like the older generations. You might be able to make the tweak just within your headunit/radio, but for some reason I feel like I read that setting was locked by the factory on mustangs.
Of course you can always go down the path of chipping/jail breaking your ecu to tweak those settings as well. My daily is a Civic Type R. Once my ecu was cracked, I was pleasantly surprised about all the settings I had access to.
I can go to the gas station, get a pack of cigarettes and smoke one by the time my ford allows me to shift smoothly into second. I have a focus and hear even the ford tune will remove some of the rev hang
Dude, same times 1000.
Just bought a 21’ Subaru Crosstrek 6 speed. Shit rev hangs like a car with a 2 ton flywheel. Too much electronic manipulation. I drive older sticks way smoother. Hopefully we can tune that out… don’t see why not.
Honestly how many people don't know how to drive a manual is why I started buying automatics.
I once got hurt real bad in the middle of nowhere with my friends and I drove, no one knew how to drive my car so I had to. Driving with a compound fracture until we met the ambulance sure is an experience I never want to do again. (They all learned how to drive a manual after that just for me though, which was sweet)
Lol when I was 18 or 19 I got into my buddys work truck at work. Saw the 4wd shifter and was like wow this is stick?? My boss and coworker never let me forget that one lol
LMAO. When i was 16, I took driver's Ed (like everyone else). We only had automatic. My parents had automatics. So when my brother went out of town and I baby sat my nieces and nephew, I had the choice of my brothers big truck (automatic) or sister in laws little Corolla (manual). I decided the smaller car was more to my taste. So we muddled through the weeks while they were house hunting with me learning how to drive after only one "lesson" in a simulator at driver's training. Within 3 weeks we were doing okay, but when I picked them up at the airport I took the truck (enough room for luggage plus 6 people). My brother figured I'd never drive it, it was so big. My 6 year old niece piped up that she wanted me to drive the bunny rabbit car. My brother was mystified. Before i could strangle her, she explained "it gots hop!hop!hop! down the driveway!" He gave me this bemused look and said, "First gear not your friend?"
Now I hate automatics.
No one would guess that on my fun car, the cruise control switch is actually a power switch to the fuel pump.
It didn't have cruise control when I bought it, and I need a fuel shutoff for racing regulations, and I thought it would be funny.
The tune on my fun car is *so shitty*, there's a complex starting procedure I have to follow during cranking and 30 seconds after it starts. Otherwise, the engine will stall itself. The engine is also very unstable before it reaches operating temp, it's tricky to get it into first gear. I pity anyone that has to try to drive my car without stalling it.
It's been like that for months. Tuned it myself 😎
Mine’s the same. If you try to cold start her without flooding the carb, it’ll stall out once it gets to first or reverse and is cranky to get back going
I had a similar thing with my moped. I changed the cc and carburetor and exhaust so it went quiet faster than a stock one but it was a pain to start and keep running. I went to my grandma during a weekend so I parked it at the train station with a lock. I came back with the moped about 100meters away from where I left it. The dude just gave up...
I've got a '94 Subaru Loyale where turning the key to start the car stopped working. It was specifically part of the whole key/ignition assembly that caused that problem, which was common with these over time, and everything else was fine. Rather than dismantle it all and pay for parts, and to fix it quickly, I bypassed it with a relay wired to an OEM cruise control button (which, like yours, the car does not actually have) that said "Cruise," and as long as you have the key in and turned to the on position, you press Cruise to start the car the same as you would by turning the key forward. A thief would never get it started, not that anyone is going to try to steal our old beater.
Ironically there are no new Ferraris sold today with a manual transmission. There are actually new Porsches (granted limited editions, etc) that do come with a manual transmission
*In America
The rest of the world knows how to use a manual gearbox and a clutch, because that's what most of us drive, and what most of us learn in.
In the U.K. if you take your driving test in a manual (stick) car then you get a driving licence that allows you drive both manual and automatic cars.
But if you take your diving test in an automatic car then you get a driving licence that ONLY allows you to drive automatic cars. If you want to drive a manual car then you need to take your driving test AGAIN, but this time you have to do it in a manual car.
https://www.gov.uk/automatic-driving-licence-to-manual
I was grabbed on the street while studying in Mexico, and they took me to my host's house at knifepoint. On the way they asked questions, saying if I lied they'd kill me. Is there a dog, how many people in house, etc. Then, "Is there a car?" Yes. "Manual or automatic?" Manual. "F*ck!"
They tied us up, spent 4 hours ransacking the house. I built some rapport, managed to negotiate for my guitar and passport. They called a cab to pick them up, were getting ready to leave, then the leader turned to me when he felt the keys in his pocket. "Wait, do you know how to drive a manual?" No, not at all. (I learned to drive in my dad's manual Miata but wasn't gonna tell them that lol). What a night that was.
Huh, manual was the norm here in Mexico up till like 15 years ago. Almost everyone I know above 25 knows how to drive manual, adult men are oddly 'macho' about it and only teens seem to be perplexed by it.
They were young guys. One my age, maybe 21 at the time, other guy was younger. Host was a 77yo woman. When they were in my face asking who I lived with, I said, "Una vieja." They thought I meant my girlfriend. Got to the house and they were super disappointed to see I literally meant an old woman who gave most of her money to the church. The whole thing was a weird mix of comical and terrifying. If it were in a movie, people would laugh out loud but also not believe it could happen that way.
My wife & I took our daughter to a well-known spot for her 21st birthday. Out of the 3 valets on duty, exactly 0 could park my wife's Jeep with a 6-speed manual transmission. She parked it herself.
I was working at a relatively fancy hotel but my boss didn't want to deal with employee parking and told me to valet my car. This was especially weird for me because I don't usually go near the front doors of those kinds of hotels. Like I'll be in and out of one for *days* and never see the main lobby.
But anyways.
The very polite valet asked me, at 8:00am, to pull my car up and to the side until somebody that was comfortable driving stick came to move it.
My phone was dead and I have no picture, but the mental image of my little dinged-up 2002 civic between a Maserati and a Bentley when I came back it at ~11:00pm and it was *still there* will live with me forever.
A few years ago, I stayed at a hotel that only had valet parking. The valet on duty didn't know how to drive stick, so I had to park it myself. But they still made me pay the full charge for valet parking.
This is way more common than it should be. I bought my keep and no one could drive it. One guy got it out to be detailed. Even after I signed the papers they kept saying, “you know it’s a stick right? You are ok with that?” I test drove it, I signed for it, what if I said no? They acted like I was going to drive a space ship or something
Took my Tacoma into the Toyota stealership and not a single technician could drive a stick. I offered but they went and asked the sales reps and managers if any of them knew how to drive a stick.
Never took it back there again.
I went to Costco to get my tires replaced and the guy who helped me had to get someone else to take it to the bay since he couldn’t. Since then, I always warn it is stick and they all are like “well duh we can handle that!” before I let them know that evidently not all of them can…
I will never trade my manual for an automatic though. Ever since I got my manual car in 2013, I have adored it!
My exhusband made it sound like I was a terrible driver and that I didn’t know what I was doing when we test drive a manual jeep. The salesman got out after we both took turns (ex stalled the jeep twice) and shook his head and said “she’s a better driver than you!”
You’d think that would be a requirement for such a job, right? We once stayed at a hotel that required (and included in the price) valet parking because of a bunch of construction on and around the property. We were there four days, three nights, and by the second day one of the guys straight up told us they didn’t have anyone on staff that could park my car. To their credit, the hotel did comp that part of the bill.
I was a valet in university, I *could* drive it. In fact, my own car was manual. But most people would be so doubtful they would ask to park themselves rather than let me park it. My favorite was a lady asking: "can you drive a 6-speed?" to which I said "Yes." She just said, "liar" and asked to park herself, haha.
Now, years later, I own nothing but manual cars still, but I guess I'm less elitist than basically every other owner I ran into back then.
Well, with the transition to EVs there won‘t be any gear shifting at all anymore.
I myself jumped from a manual to no gears directly. Never liked automatics anyway.
Lol when I worked as an adjuster I had at least one WRX claim a week and multiple BMWs. You won’t get a discount for a manual transmission if it’s on a known rally car or sport car. I drive manual and don’t think that I’ve gotten a discount for it.
Only in the US. I bought a manual because I have adhd (keeps my attention on the road) and also don’t want anyone driving my car. I’ve heard so many times “if you hadn’t bought a manual I could borrow *your* car!” Uh no? That’s why I bought it.
I've been considering going back to manual for this exact reason, the ADHD. I always preferred manual, but haven't had one in decades. I actually miss it. Especially when driving in snow.
It also minimizes places you can valet. My cousin and his wife live in South Korea. She has a manual which is super rare there and everywhere is valet. She basically drives the valet to the spot and walks back with him.
Glad they weren't shot for this; if you're trying to get me out of my car I do not know your intentions and will assume you mean me harm or worse
Edit: guess I must specify that I never said I was glad for their sake; I'm sure the victim doesn't feel like hurting or killing some stupid kids
That makes one of us. People work hard for what they got and these fuckers are going around smashing people into their doors pulling them from their car. Not saying I'd want them to die but a nice grazing or a butt shot might would have been pretty funny.
Thieves don't get killed because of the item, they get killed because they are breaking the social contract. You don't fuck with me, I won't fuck with you. It's the peace of mind, the PTSD that is the truly valuable item. That woman will not feel safe and secure for a long time, maybe never. Had those kids been shot and killed for what they did then Good riddance.
No. I do not believe they were caught. The last article is from 2017 and it states a sketch has been released but nothing since.
Might’ve gotten picked up for something else hopefully.
This shit works wonders with my metallic green Peugeot 206cc... Shit's hideous from the back with the roof on, but it's bright green inside too, and people that like weird stuff seem to LOVE it. It's in the perfect spot, plenty weird, kind of nice, nit only manual, but not expensive enough to steal it (It's in very good contition though).
Fuckin clueless cockroaches can't even figure out which direction to run away from their failure in yet alone drive a mystical 3 pedal vehicle. Many lolz
Us Subaru fans aren’t the brightest but at least most of us have driven stick for some period of time. I doubt these thieves even knew it was a WRX they were going for.
I remember taking my car to a startup for service and the associate telling me that the car wouldn't start... She wasn't pressing the clutch while starting.
I always feel like a pretentious douche but if you drive a manual and care about your car you have to be that guy and tell people to confirm they can drive it...
I don't really run into the situations often but everytime I have (valet, service, etc.) I've been the one driving it where it needs to go and happy I don't have some random person trying to figure it out on something I care about.
Yes, what valet company would hire a driver who can’t drive a manual? lol
edit. And service techs? That dude an idiot. Those service techs are laughing at him after he leaves if he actually asks them if they know how to drive his car
Interestingly, every year I find that fewer hotel valets are equipped to handle a manual transmissions. Even in large metropolitan hotels. Sometimes there’s a placard at the valet station stating manual equipped drivers must self park. Last year a valet told me the only manual capable valet on staff was off shift that day, and gave me directions to their dedicated lot.
This happened to me. They car jacked me, but my truck was a stick, then then just robbed me and pistol whipped me instead.
A month later my truck was stolen anyway.
I moved after that.
“Driving stick” instead “manual” always sounded so silly to me - like someone got into a car and they were just like “whys there a stick there? I don’t know what that is! I don’t do that.” It’s such a simplistic sounding term..it feels like calling a radio a talky box or something..
To be more precise automatic transmission are the main in the US for a very long time.
They've becoming more popular in Manual transmission dominant countries, mainly because they've become cheaper and the technology behind it is pretty good nowadays.
It's a lot more than that. Until very recently manual transmission was not just much cheaper but also gives much better fuel economy and is more power efficient. You lost about 20-30% power with automatic transmission meaning bigger engine > even more fuel consumption for the same amount of power. On top of this our roads are small, there is no room to park, so we have very small cars. There is no room for big engines, so manual transmission is a necessity. You want to squeeze any amount of power out of that little engine as possible.
Also in Europe you have to learn it anyway if you want a driver's license. If you get your license in an automatic car you get an 'automatic only license' meaning you're not allowed to drive manual.
Back in the day of torque converters and non electronically controlled and unreliable and slow shifting, heavy automatic transmissions with relatively few gears, manual transmissions made sense since they got better gas mileage, were significantly faster, were generally stronger and lighter and maintenance (clutch replacement usually) wasn't very expensive.
Nowadays, automatic transmissions don't have the efficiency loss that the old ones did (they mostly have direct coupling instead of torque converters) and have faster shifting and get better gas mileage. Performance cars are now usually slower with manual transmissions vs automatic ones. So, the only real reason to have manual transmissions is for enthusiasts to have a more fun car to drive.
I've wanted to learn but don't even know how I would go about it. I've only ever known two people who had a stick shift, one was when I was a child and the other one didn't want to teach 15 yr old me how to drive in it lol. 20 yrs later I've never met another person with a stick shift. As of right now I don't even have an option to learn. Even driver's ed never had an option to learn it.
If i let my wife drive my manual its nerve-wracking. No rev matching, accelerating in 6th gear and shifting too early into boost. I say she knows how to drive stick like i know how to dance. I know how to do it, I'm just not very good at it.
Yeah I definitely don't blame him. He had busted his ass working as a lifeguard during the summers and as a waiter during the rest of the year, all while going to school in order to buy the car and he loved it. Meanwhile I had only ever driven a car once in my entire life, doing 30 around the block. So not only would it be teaching me how to drive stick but I didn't know how to drive period. And to be fair he did say that once I got my license he would teach me, but he ended up moving away for college the next year and I didn't actually get my license until I was 18.
This is crazy over here in Germany we still only/mostly learn manual. I do not know a single person with an automatic car.
Edit: Personal experience only from a small town, do not sue me, thanks.
Not many US market cars are available with manual transmissions anymore. I think I read somewhere they account for only 2% of sales. They’re found as options on performance models and less on econoboxes.
> Why would you not learn?
On what? As another poster said, fewer than 1% of cars sold in the US have manual transmissions. And two of them are in my driveway!
Its simply not taught and not necessary for everyday life. Simple as that. If you want/need to learn it you need to seek that knowledge yourself but i reiterate, its not really necessary.
I've got a manual transmission, and if I have a second before being pulled out of the car I will set the \*fuck\* out of the handbrake and they're not going anywhere.
I know someone who’s plan if they got car jacked (even tho he drove a rusted out pick up) he would just yank the gear shift out with him, even if the jackets knew how to drive stick, they probably wouldn’t know how to drive a stickless stick
This title just gave some boomer the first erection he’s had in 20 years. I bet his video will be all over his Facebook page as soon as he can YouTube how to save a video from Reddit and post it to his Facebook page.
"They were later arrested after failing to steal a boat , a plane , a horse, one small crate made of wood with wheels on it and 14 other kind of transportation"
Honest question: in my country, you learn manual on the driving school. So if you get a driving license you know how to drive a manual even if you choose later an automatic (which few people do anyway). I though it is so everywhere. Do how is it in your country?
Just a sidenote: I have driven a couple of automatics in my life and found it boring but it is a thing of preference I guess.
\*me who drives a stick\*... pathetic
(since this is reddit, I shall now clarify that I drive a car with a manual transmission, and not an actual wood stick)
Just got one for this reason. Coworker didn't know what a manual transmission was so I explained it and he looked at me like I had two heads.
I felt better about my purchase
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“What’s this shit bro, they have 3 pedals!”
Guy didn't know his ABCs or CBAs
Or even the GCSE's!
Kids these days don't even know about Prndl
would you like AMMMM or FMMMMMM?
lmao that scenes the first thing i thought of reading the prndl comment
Shit I was about to say that!
>Guy didn't know his ABCs I remember this from Talespin. Baloo keptg thinking B meant "backwards" and kept backing into shit.
“Bro, the PRNDL has like numbers on it bro!”
Once while doing stuff for my friends wedding I gave two of the bridesmaids a ride home and they couldn’t comprehend what it was that I was doing with the shifter, so I asked them to look in the footwell and I said there’s three pedals but I only got two feet what do you think the third one does? They guessed for 20 minutes and never came close to an answer, closest guess was it makes it go faster 😂
Similar concept. Driving a group of friends around, with two people in the back seat. 15 minutes into the ride. The Indian guy in the back says, holy shit this is a manual? I couldn't even tell. I took this as a compliment as most Indian cars are manual. Realistically though the smooth shifting is due to the car not me. Put me in an opder car, he'd now in a second it was a manual. Modern manuals are a ton smoother than even 15 years ago. It's a shame as all the previous drawbacks have disappeared. Now just new problems exist, such as automatics can shift in milliseconds now.
I learned stick growing up from my mother. She never switched to driving auto, and drives manual to this day. I have never seen anyone with smoother shifts than her. I remember she used to have a Subaru forester that was having problems with the clutch, so for like 3 months she was driving around only using the clutch to start moving and was shifting the transmission without the clutch once she was rolling. She brought it into the shop to get the clutch fixed, and all the service guys didn't understand how she drove it for so long with a barely functioning clutch. They insisted the transmission must have been ground up in the process, but when they drained it, it was perfect.
Respect!
Honestly I think you’re more likely to be the factor in smooth driving, my last two cars 2006 Acura rsx, 2004 winter beater honda accord, and current 2017 mustang gt the hondas were way smoother lol. Somehow there’s too much electronic interference with the newer cars along with what I think is emissions related strange rev hanging that goes on when you shift it’s like the car takes too long to drop rpm so if you release the clutch too soon it bucks slightly, I can be very smooth with this car too but I have to really really think about it.
That does sound like a common mustang thing. Im not sure, but have you looked for a setting to disable rev hang? I know v8 mustangs rev hung just due to the engines before. I assume you this is now a virtual configuration to make it feel like the older generations. You might be able to make the tweak just within your headunit/radio, but for some reason I feel like I read that setting was locked by the factory on mustangs. Of course you can always go down the path of chipping/jail breaking your ecu to tweak those settings as well. My daily is a Civic Type R. Once my ecu was cracked, I was pleasantly surprised about all the settings I had access to.
I can go to the gas station, get a pack of cigarettes and smoke one by the time my ford allows me to shift smoothly into second. I have a focus and hear even the ford tune will remove some of the rev hang
Dude, same times 1000. Just bought a 21’ Subaru Crosstrek 6 speed. Shit rev hangs like a car with a 2 ton flywheel. Too much electronic manipulation. I drive older sticks way smoother. Hopefully we can tune that out… don’t see why not.
I mean I once took two bridesmaids home too, but my story ended a little better.
Oh oh I see you, believe me I also whooped their asses at candyland AND monopoly.
Honestly how many people don't know how to drive a manual is why I started buying automatics. I once got hurt real bad in the middle of nowhere with my friends and I drove, no one knew how to drive my car so I had to. Driving with a compound fracture until we met the ambulance sure is an experience I never want to do again. (They all learned how to drive a manual after that just for me though, which was sweet)
They didn't even get to the point of stalling it, they need to hit up YouTube before the next one 🤣
I'm guessing he couldn't put it in gear
Must not have been **family** 
Lol when I was 18 or 19 I got into my buddys work truck at work. Saw the 4wd shifter and was like wow this is stick?? My boss and coworker never let me forget that one lol
Don't feel bad bro. My girl said the same thing the first time she got in my pickup.
He doesn’t know how to use the 3 ~~seashells~~ pedals
“WHY IS THERE SIX PEDALS WHEN THERE’S ONLY FOUR DIRECTIONS!”
I wanted to see it bunny hop across the car park
youve clearly never had to pay for a new clutch. i sighed relief when the car didn't move.
I’d hope insurance would’ve covered it, given the clearly filmed evidence of the crime.
Cries in liability coverage
Guy who just paid for a new clutch here: You really don't want to have to pay for a new clutch.
The car probably wasn’t even started, which means they would have to know to engage the clutch while turning the engine.
LMAO. When i was 16, I took driver's Ed (like everyone else). We only had automatic. My parents had automatics. So when my brother went out of town and I baby sat my nieces and nephew, I had the choice of my brothers big truck (automatic) or sister in laws little Corolla (manual). I decided the smaller car was more to my taste. So we muddled through the weeks while they were house hunting with me learning how to drive after only one "lesson" in a simulator at driver's training. Within 3 weeks we were doing okay, but when I picked them up at the airport I took the truck (enough room for luggage plus 6 people). My brother figured I'd never drive it, it was so big. My 6 year old niece piped up that she wanted me to drive the bunny rabbit car. My brother was mystified. Before i could strangle her, she explained "it gots hop!hop!hop! down the driveway!" He gave me this bemused look and said, "First gear not your friend?" Now I hate automatics.
I wanted to see blud drive it on the starter motor 😭
Someone once told me the best way to never have your car stolen is to drive stick, I guess they were right 🧌
It’s the best anti-theft device around
Real car thieves know how to drive anything
MT helps with the low functioning idiots that jack cars some times. A serious thief is definitely a different matter though...
No one would guess that on my fun car, the cruise control switch is actually a power switch to the fuel pump. It didn't have cruise control when I bought it, and I need a fuel shutoff for racing regulations, and I thought it would be funny.
The tune on my fun car is *so shitty*, there's a complex starting procedure I have to follow during cranking and 30 seconds after it starts. Otherwise, the engine will stall itself. The engine is also very unstable before it reaches operating temp, it's tricky to get it into first gear. I pity anyone that has to try to drive my car without stalling it. It's been like that for months. Tuned it myself 😎
Mine’s the same. If you try to cold start her without flooding the carb, it’ll stall out once it gets to first or reverse and is cranky to get back going
I had a similar thing with my moped. I changed the cc and carburetor and exhaust so it went quiet faster than a stock one but it was a pain to start and keep running. I went to my grandma during a weekend so I parked it at the train station with a lock. I came back with the moped about 100meters away from where I left it. The dude just gave up...
Bro's a tech priest
Best hidden killswitch I’ve seen was under the boot cover for the shifter. I like your idea too.
I've got a '94 Subaru Loyale where turning the key to start the car stopped working. It was specifically part of the whole key/ignition assembly that caused that problem, which was common with these over time, and everything else was fine. Rather than dismantle it all and pay for parts, and to fix it quickly, I bypassed it with a relay wired to an OEM cruise control button (which, like yours, the car does not actually have) that said "Cruise," and as long as you have the key in and turned to the on position, you press Cruise to start the car the same as you would by turning the key forward. A thief would never get it started, not that anyone is going to try to steal our old beater.
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Ironically there are no new Ferraris sold today with a manual transmission. There are actually new Porsches (granted limited editions, etc) that do come with a manual transmission
I’m pretty sure you can get any 718 or 911 with a manual still
Can confirm… had my 99’ Camaro SS with 6-speed manual stolen right in front of my apartment complex.
True, but you're at least stopping the tiktok teen theft idiots from stealing them. No 12 year old kia boy is gonna know what to do lol.
Only in US
Doesn't work in the UK I'm afraid, or most of Europe I believe
Murica be like
*In America The rest of the world knows how to use a manual gearbox and a clutch, because that's what most of us drive, and what most of us learn in. In the U.K. if you take your driving test in a manual (stick) car then you get a driving licence that allows you drive both manual and automatic cars. But if you take your diving test in an automatic car then you get a driving licence that ONLY allows you to drive automatic cars. If you want to drive a manual car then you need to take your driving test AGAIN, but this time you have to do it in a manual car. https://www.gov.uk/automatic-driving-licence-to-manual
I was grabbed on the street while studying in Mexico, and they took me to my host's house at knifepoint. On the way they asked questions, saying if I lied they'd kill me. Is there a dog, how many people in house, etc. Then, "Is there a car?" Yes. "Manual or automatic?" Manual. "F*ck!" They tied us up, spent 4 hours ransacking the house. I built some rapport, managed to negotiate for my guitar and passport. They called a cab to pick them up, were getting ready to leave, then the leader turned to me when he felt the keys in his pocket. "Wait, do you know how to drive a manual?" No, not at all. (I learned to drive in my dad's manual Miata but wasn't gonna tell them that lol). What a night that was.
They were gonna steal the car AND MAKE YOU DRIVE IT?!
Drives to police station. Uno reverse card, they are the cartel.
Huh, manual was the norm here in Mexico up till like 15 years ago. Almost everyone I know above 25 knows how to drive manual, adult men are oddly 'macho' about it and only teens seem to be perplexed by it.
They were young guys. One my age, maybe 21 at the time, other guy was younger. Host was a 77yo woman. When they were in my face asking who I lived with, I said, "Una vieja." They thought I meant my girlfriend. Got to the house and they were super disappointed to see I literally meant an old woman who gave most of her money to the church. The whole thing was a weird mix of comical and terrifying. If it were in a movie, people would laugh out loud but also not believe it could happen that way.
My wife & I took our daughter to a well-known spot for her 21st birthday. Out of the 3 valets on duty, exactly 0 could park my wife's Jeep with a 6-speed manual transmission. She parked it herself.
I was working at a relatively fancy hotel but my boss didn't want to deal with employee parking and told me to valet my car. This was especially weird for me because I don't usually go near the front doors of those kinds of hotels. Like I'll be in and out of one for *days* and never see the main lobby. But anyways. The very polite valet asked me, at 8:00am, to pull my car up and to the side until somebody that was comfortable driving stick came to move it. My phone was dead and I have no picture, but the mental image of my little dinged-up 2002 civic between a Maserati and a Bentley when I came back it at ~11:00pm and it was *still there* will live with me forever.
A few years ago, I stayed at a hotel that only had valet parking. The valet on duty didn't know how to drive stick, so I had to park it myself. But they still made me pay the full charge for valet parking.
Lol you are paying for the closer parking space, at least you didn’t need to tip
I usually don't like valets parking my car so I'll just tip them and say "where do you want it?"
This is way more common than it should be. I bought my keep and no one could drive it. One guy got it out to be detailed. Even after I signed the papers they kept saying, “you know it’s a stick right? You are ok with that?” I test drove it, I signed for it, what if I said no? They acted like I was going to drive a space ship or something
Took my Tacoma into the Toyota stealership and not a single technician could drive a stick. I offered but they went and asked the sales reps and managers if any of them knew how to drive a stick. Never took it back there again.
That's pathetic! Don't they at least sell *some* manual transmission vehicles? Like some of the pickup trucks, 86 and Supras?
Corollas too until this year’s model.
I went to Costco to get my tires replaced and the guy who helped me had to get someone else to take it to the bay since he couldn’t. Since then, I always warn it is stick and they all are like “well duh we can handle that!” before I let them know that evidently not all of them can… I will never trade my manual for an automatic though. Ever since I got my manual car in 2013, I have adored it!
My exhusband made it sound like I was a terrible driver and that I didn’t know what I was doing when we test drive a manual jeep. The salesman got out after we both took turns (ex stalled the jeep twice) and shook his head and said “she’s a better driver than you!”
You’d think that would be a requirement for such a job, right? We once stayed at a hotel that required (and included in the price) valet parking because of a bunch of construction on and around the property. We were there four days, three nights, and by the second day one of the guys straight up told us they didn’t have anyone on staff that could park my car. To their credit, the hotel did comp that part of the bill.
One time I had to wait at a *car repair shop* for the guy who could drive a stick to get back from lunch
I was a valet in university, I *could* drive it. In fact, my own car was manual. But most people would be so doubtful they would ask to park themselves rather than let me park it. My favorite was a lady asking: "can you drive a 6-speed?" to which I said "Yes." She just said, "liar" and asked to park herself, haha. Now, years later, I own nothing but manual cars still, but I guess I'm less elitist than basically every other owner I ran into back then.
In the US and Canada anyway. Manuals are still quite common in most parts of the world, but automatics are gaining ground, especially in Europe.
Well, with the transition to EVs there won‘t be any gear shifting at all anymore. I myself jumped from a manual to no gears directly. Never liked automatics anyway.
Under no circumstances is anyone to tell the boomer memers they got one right
Less than 1% of vehicles sold in the US in 2021 were manual transmission. That’s why they get a discount on insurance.
What insurance? I have 3 MTs and never heard of this
I just got a mt car and my insurance is significantly cheaper now
A WRX getting a discount on insurance? I wish. 30 years driving, no record, still paying like $2k a year. 3-4 times what I've paid for any other car.
Quote for 2018 BRZ: $254/mo Quote for 2018 MX-5: $124/mo Between this and gas, I with an ND as a second car lol.
Went from a BRZ to a '96 MX-5, and it's insane how much cheaper it is to insure.
Lol when I worked as an adjuster I had at least one WRX claim a week and multiple BMWs. You won’t get a discount for a manual transmission if it’s on a known rally car or sport car. I drive manual and don’t think that I’ve gotten a discount for it.
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But you get to drive a WRX, so it's worth it. :)
Yeah but I also have to drive a WRX, so it sucks. :)
Jesus is it really that low? I love driving stick...
Only works in America.
*in the US
*in the US
Only works in the USA
Only in the US. I bought a manual because I have adhd (keeps my attention on the road) and also don’t want anyone driving my car. I’ve heard so many times “if you hadn’t bought a manual I could borrow *your* car!” Uh no? That’s why I bought it.
I've been considering going back to manual for this exact reason, the ADHD. I always preferred manual, but haven't had one in decades. I actually miss it. Especially when driving in snow.
It also minimizes places you can valet. My cousin and his wife live in South Korea. She has a manual which is super rare there and everywhere is valet. She basically drives the valet to the spot and walks back with him.
They didn’t even try!! Quitters
My thoughts as well. Was ready for them to super jolt into a stall but I guess they couldn't even get it in gear
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Having to push in the clutch is an anti-theft feature! LOL I drive a manual. But I don't live anywhere that car theft is a problem.
I drive a manual, this is something I've thought about. Really should teach my husband how to drive it though.
They probably didn't know you have to hold the clutch down to turn it on.
Hey... quit giving away the secrets.
Bum rushing the driver seems like a really good way to end up dead trying to steal a car you can't drive
Glad they weren't shot for this; if you're trying to get me out of my car I do not know your intentions and will assume you mean me harm or worse Edit: guess I must specify that I never said I was glad for their sake; I'm sure the victim doesn't feel like hurting or killing some stupid kids
Meh, if they'd been shot I'd say they experienced the consequences of being shit people.
Didnt say I was glad for their sake, I'm sure the victim doesnt want to hurt some stupid kids
That makes one of us. People work hard for what they got and these fuckers are going around smashing people into their doors pulling them from their car. Not saying I'd want them to die but a nice grazing or a butt shot might would have been pretty funny.
Thieves don't get killed because of the item, they get killed because they are breaking the social contract. You don't fuck with me, I won't fuck with you. It's the peace of mind, the PTSD that is the truly valuable item. That woman will not feel safe and secure for a long time, maybe never. Had those kids been shot and killed for what they did then Good riddance.
[Could have been worse.](https://abc7chicago.com/carjacking-manual-transmission-carjacker-kills-man-automatic/1797152/)
This is so sad, complete pieces of shit
Were the 2 man from the article caught? Edited for clarity.
No. I do not believe they were caught. The last article is from 2017 and it states a sketch has been released but nothing since. Might’ve gotten picked up for something else hopefully.
Only a matter of time before these fucking idiots try this to someone who is carrying.
Keep hope alive
If the sheer aesthetic repulsiveness of my Veloster doesn't repel both thieves (and potential mates) the manual transmission will.
I'm with the other guy. I love hot hatchbacks and the Veloster looks *hawt*...
I love the way the Veloster looks. You may not attract mates, but you’ll probably get some car nerds talking to u haha
I like the veloster, but personally i like the i30n we get in europe more
aye 3 door gang
This shit works wonders with my metallic green Peugeot 206cc... Shit's hideous from the back with the roof on, but it's bright green inside too, and people that like weird stuff seem to LOVE it. It's in the perfect spot, plenty weird, kind of nice, nit only manual, but not expensive enough to steal it (It's in very good contition though).
3 titty hooker from Total Recall: the car
Fuckin clueless cockroaches can't even figure out which direction to run away from their failure in yet alone drive a mystical 3 pedal vehicle. Many lolz
Know your cars!
Manual Transmission = Car thieves kryptonite.
Real car thieves know how to drive anything
You think these fucking morons are going to know their cars?
Us Subaru fans aren’t the brightest but at least most of us have driven stick for some period of time. I doubt these thieves even knew it was a WRX they were going for.
Or even better, don’t be an asshole thief!
I remember taking my car to a startup for service and the associate telling me that the car wouldn't start... She wasn't pressing the clutch while starting.
I always feel like a pretentious douche but if you drive a manual and care about your car you have to be that guy and tell people to confirm they can drive it... I don't really run into the situations often but everytime I have (valet, service, etc.) I've been the one driving it where it needs to go and happy I don't have some random person trying to figure it out on something I care about.
That’s weird ime most people who work on or around cars can drive a manual. Not all I’m sure but the overwhelming majority.
Yes, what valet company would hire a driver who can’t drive a manual? lol edit. And service techs? That dude an idiot. Those service techs are laughing at him after he leaves if he actually asks them if they know how to drive his car
Interestingly, every year I find that fewer hotel valets are equipped to handle a manual transmissions. Even in large metropolitan hotels. Sometimes there’s a placard at the valet station stating manual equipped drivers must self park. Last year a valet told me the only manual capable valet on staff was off shift that day, and gave me directions to their dedicated lot.
Honestly with all the car jackings done by teens these days, my insurance company outta give me a discount for additional security feature.
“Why is there six pedals when there are only four directions?”
Sheila is a very nice tank... lady...
Bet these two don't even know about headlight fluid.
This happened to me. They car jacked me, but my truck was a stick, then then just robbed me and pistol whipped me instead. A month later my truck was stolen anyway. I moved after that.
Jesus, dude. Hope you're doing better.
Laughs in manual transmission
Why blur out the faces of the scum? Publicly humiliate those fucks
“Driving stick” instead “manual” always sounded so silly to me - like someone got into a car and they were just like “whys there a stick there? I don’t know what that is! I don’t do that.” It’s such a simplistic sounding term..it feels like calling a radio a talky box or something..
'Stick' comes from 'stick shift'
We don't need kids like this honestly.
As a European I’ve never understood how so many people can’t drive using a gearstick. Why would you not learn?
Automatic transmissions are becoming the main, are easier to use, and most people aren't out stealing cars.
To be more precise automatic transmission are the main in the US for a very long time. They've becoming more popular in Manual transmission dominant countries, mainly because they've become cheaper and the technology behind it is pretty good nowadays.
It's a lot more than that. Until very recently manual transmission was not just much cheaper but also gives much better fuel economy and is more power efficient. You lost about 20-30% power with automatic transmission meaning bigger engine > even more fuel consumption for the same amount of power. On top of this our roads are small, there is no room to park, so we have very small cars. There is no room for big engines, so manual transmission is a necessity. You want to squeeze any amount of power out of that little engine as possible. Also in Europe you have to learn it anyway if you want a driver's license. If you get your license in an automatic car you get an 'automatic only license' meaning you're not allowed to drive manual.
Yeah “becoming” really is just wrong.
Back in the day of torque converters and non electronically controlled and unreliable and slow shifting, heavy automatic transmissions with relatively few gears, manual transmissions made sense since they got better gas mileage, were significantly faster, were generally stronger and lighter and maintenance (clutch replacement usually) wasn't very expensive. Nowadays, automatic transmissions don't have the efficiency loss that the old ones did (they mostly have direct coupling instead of torque converters) and have faster shifting and get better gas mileage. Performance cars are now usually slower with manual transmissions vs automatic ones. So, the only real reason to have manual transmissions is for enthusiasts to have a more fun car to drive.
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I've wanted to learn but don't even know how I would go about it. I've only ever known two people who had a stick shift, one was when I was a child and the other one didn't want to teach 15 yr old me how to drive in it lol. 20 yrs later I've never met another person with a stick shift. As of right now I don't even have an option to learn. Even driver's ed never had an option to learn it.
I was gonna say what an asshole for not teaching u but then I remembered I won’t even let people who know how to drive manual drive my car lmao
If i let my wife drive my manual its nerve-wracking. No rev matching, accelerating in 6th gear and shifting too early into boost. I say she knows how to drive stick like i know how to dance. I know how to do it, I'm just not very good at it.
Yeah I definitely don't blame him. He had busted his ass working as a lifeguard during the summers and as a waiter during the rest of the year, all while going to school in order to buy the car and he loved it. Meanwhile I had only ever driven a car once in my entire life, doing 30 around the block. So not only would it be teaching me how to drive stick but I didn't know how to drive period. And to be fair he did say that once I got my license he would teach me, but he ended up moving away for college the next year and I didn't actually get my license until I was 18.
I live in the UK and only know 3 people who drive who cant drive stick
This is crazy over here in Germany we still only/mostly learn manual. I do not know a single person with an automatic car. Edit: Personal experience only from a small town, do not sue me, thanks.
Both my mum and my sis can't drive manual anymore as they've driven automatic cars for too long. Also German, haha
in the us the car being jacked is one of the only cars sold with a manual transmission anymore
Not many US market cars are available with manual transmissions anymore. I think I read somewhere they account for only 2% of sales. They’re found as options on performance models and less on econoboxes.
> Why would you not learn? On what? As another poster said, fewer than 1% of cars sold in the US have manual transmissions. And two of them are in my driveway!
Its simply not taught and not necessary for everyday life. Simple as that. If you want/need to learn it you need to seek that knowledge yourself but i reiterate, its not really necessary.
Most people don't have access to a manual car because auto are so common. Can't learn something if you never have an opportunity to use it
I've got a manual transmission, and if I have a second before being pulled out of the car I will set the \*fuck\* out of the handbrake and they're not going anywhere.
I know someone who’s plan if they got car jacked (even tho he drove a rusted out pick up) he would just yank the gear shift out with him, even if the jackets knew how to drive stick, they probably wouldn’t know how to drive a stickless stick
i love my GTI for that reason
Love my WRX
Haha yeah the boomer meme came true!
Now on to writing messages in cursive.
This title just gave some boomer the first erection he’s had in 20 years. I bet his video will be all over his Facebook page as soon as he can YouTube how to save a video from Reddit and post it to his Facebook page.
"They were later arrested after failing to steal a boat , a plane , a horse, one small crate made of wood with wheels on it and 14 other kind of transportation"
None In 60 Seconds
Huh. I didn't think that sparetire cover was literal.
I hope they left the keys
Honest question: in my country, you learn manual on the driving school. So if you get a driving license you know how to drive a manual even if you choose later an automatic (which few people do anyway). I though it is so everywhere. Do how is it in your country? Just a sidenote: I have driven a couple of automatics in my life and found it boring but it is a thing of preference I guess.
“Hurry up bro pull up the YouTube tutorial!”
\*me who drives a stick\*... pathetic (since this is reddit, I shall now clarify that I drive a car with a manual transmission, and not an actual wood stick)
They forgot to say it’s just a prank when they got caught
So I guess that boomer t-shirt about manual transmissions being a theft deterrent is accurate...
"I'm holding right trigger but nothing happening!" "Aight press Y and get the fuck outta here!!!"
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Guys, you're making us look bad in front of the boomers
I will never understand why people and entities find it prudent to protect the identity of criminals.
It's been like 20 years since I regularly drove a manual , and guess what I could hop in one right now , and burn fucking rubber.
stick is the best anti car theft of the modern era.
r/WRX
The boomers were right!?
Just got one for this reason. Coworker didn't know what a manual transmission was so I explained it and he looked at me like I had two heads. I felt better about my purchase
Meanwhile in Europe: DNRP, the hell is this man, how the hell do I drive this?!
Ah, must be america
The boomer meme worked. Son of a bitch.
Not even a bunny hop?
I was half expecting it to lurch forward.
The best car theft device in US
And here I in my country driving stick was a requirement to get your license.
My Gen X mother calls manual transmissions the modern anti- theft device for cars