Can you drive stick?

[lilboo]

On two different driving tours abroad (very difficult to rent an automatic abroad)it was pointed out to me that if something were to happen to my then partners in crime-where would we be? I can't drive stick-we didn't have cell phones or anything back then...

Of course it seems very sexy, very BOND-but I can't drive a manual-I'm very mean with an automatic though...

Are you one of the devil-may-care, stick-shift driving temptresses- maybe I need a copy of Stick-SHift for Dummies ....

 

[SPAGo 98]

i wish i could, but i haven't learned yet.

 

[catsrule]

no

 

[janette]

My 1st new car was a manual, don't know why I decided I needed that. It takes a bit to remember to use both feet but it's something you don't forget.

Probably the most dangerous part of switching is one time I hit the brake with my left foot just like it was a clutch, almost put one of my nephews through the window.

 

[lilboo]

There's that scene in Mission Impossible 2-they're driving through some coastal "riviera" town and the scenes are so BALLETIC-

and when you actually get in a stick shift, the first time is hardly graceful, more like suicidal...

 

[Michelle]

Sure! I owned two manual transmission cars for many years.

 

[catsrule]

Saw Gena Lee Nolan getting into her Porche and leaving at MGM last year. It was quite obvious she was driving a stick, and new at it.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

So funny......I was working back in 1990...I, for some reason, didn't have my car with me...and asked at work..if I could borrow someones...it was a stick!!!!

I didn't say anything...and I did quite good....but, I really hated it.....I had to make sure I was somewhere where I didn't have to back up...
It is a much longer story...but, well you know.....


Lisa

 

[lilboo]

Saw Gena Lee Nolan getting into her Porche and leaving at MGM last year. It was quite obvious she was driving a stick, and new at it

hilarious!

Oh and a not so graceful stick moment in movies-how could I forget-Richard Gere, Pretty Woman...

 

[HugsForEeyore]

Yes - I love stick!! The only cars I ever owned are stick shifts. I have had two Honda Accords. I learned to drive stick at age 20, and boy - did I stall out everywhere! I burned up that clutch so bad! But now I drive perfectly - my current car has 129,000 miles on the original clutch.

I must say, the best thing about stick shifts is that most people won't ask to borrow your car!

I hope they still make them when I am ready to get my next car, hopefully in a few years. I love the power and control the stick shift gives!

 

[crazyme5kids]

I love manual shifts! Unfortunatly I don't have one because I drive a suburban. When I go back to driving a small car it will be manual.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

I've driven both, automatic and standard. I like having a stick better. Gas mileage is better on the highway and they are just fun to drive.

 

[helenabear]

Yep, I learned how to do it even before I got my license (parking lots of course). My current car is a manual and as long as I can help it, that will be what I drive. It's just so much fun and I get better control of what I want to do. It also keeps DH from driving my car since he's not too good at it (j/k)

 

[snoopy]

We have cars with both manual and automatic transmissions, I prefer driving automatics.

Maybe I'm getting old, but all that footwork makes me tired driving around in this city traffic..

My first car had a manual transmission. First my father tried to teach me and yelled at me, then my BF (now DH) tried to teach me and yelled at me, then finally my patient and sweet mother sat on a hill with me and let me stall out about 100 times without saying a word. I finally learned.

 

[sharbear]

It's funny that the people who know how to drive a stick love it. Me too! But I drive a minivan now. But just wait until my mid like crisis, a little sports car, here I come. I learned how to drive on a stick there is nothing quite like it. You are never bored driving. My FIL bought a VW Jetta Diesel with a manual transmission and my MIL won't even attempt to drive it. And she knows how. It's kindof annoying because my FIL has to drive everywhere even long car rides to Florida.

 

[DaveH]

Yes. Both oy DS'S learned to drive using a stick.

 

[Serena]

I know how, I had to learn in germany, but I haven't done it in 15 years.

I would rather drive an automatic, but I will drive a stick if I have to. But it wouldn't be graceful. lol

 

[Cindy B]

Yes, I have had manual cars for a long time.

Manual shifts are cheaper to buy, and better gas mileage.

Our current one is a Geo Storm, but before that was a Mutsubishi Eclipse.

I owned a Mustang with manual shift as well.


I remember my dad, (truck driver that he was), saying girls shouldn't learn manual.. he said it was too hard, and too much to think about.. (he's a little old fashioned)

I bought a manual car in college. I had my boyfriend teach me how to drive stick on an old late 70's Subaru...

Then I showed my dad!

And yes it is true, people don't borow your car.

 

[ChiTownZee]

When I was 16 and learning to drive, my step-mother told me I HAD to learn to drive a stick as well. That you'd never know when you would need it (i.e. at a party and the driver I came with couldn't drive, borrowing someones car, etc) And she was right! (don't tell her I said that! )

 

[EpcotKilterFan]

I do!! And I love it!!!!!!

And until I can't physically do it anymore (of course my bad knee is my clutch leg) I will drive stick.

Debbie