Just curious.
Yep
I haven’t driven one in like eight years, before that, it was the main thing I drove for almost 2 decades.
Never tried. Will very likely never need to.
First car was a “three on the tree,” Plymouth Valiant.
Learned to drive on a tractor and then a pickup and finally a car. When I got my license in Illinois if you took the driving test in an automatic you got a restricted license. No farm kid wanted one of those!
yes. learned to drive on my dad’s Spirit R/T, my first new vehicle was a diesel Ram 2500 with a stick, later I got an SRT-4, and had a 2010 and 2012 Mustang with stick shift.
My wife can too. One of our sons drives, and we’d like him to learn.
I’ve had only 2 automatics in my life; the first junker my Dad bought me when I got my license, and our current XTerra. The current one would have been a manual if we could have found one, but we were lucky to find one at all.
Still have the Z3 for fun summer driving. I love manuals.
Learned to drive on a stick. I don’t have any vehicles with a stick anymore, but i used to end up stomping my left foot on the floor looking for the clutch when I would switch to an automatic. Driving a stick is not something I’ve had to be conscious of for many many years, my right hand and both feet just do the work without any active thought.
It’s been years, but several of my cars were manuals.
Most of my life I drove sticks. But when I got my current car ten years ago, the stop sign forests in my town finally defeated me. But I am still perfectly capable of it. My wife was too back in the days she drove. She has refused to drive for the last 35 years.
My car is a VW Passat with a manual transmission.
I’ve owned a number of motorcycles in my lifetime, all of which had manual transmissions. As far as I know, nobody makes a motorcycle with an an automatic, not since the failure to sell much of the Hondamatic in the late 70s.
I learned on an automatic, and my first car that I owned was an automatic, but when I was about 22, a friend taught me to drive stick, and after that, I got a stick, because the next time I had to buy a car, it was the cheapest thing on the lot. From about age 25 until last year (age 49), I exclusively owned manuals. I wanted to buy a manual when I bought my car last year, but the only ones I could find were used ones with high mileage, and sports cars. I wanted a new economy car, and ended up with a Chevy Spark automatic. I miss driving stick.
I can VERY competently drive stick, though. I know lots of women who can. I’m not sure what the thing about men and stick is.
Yes. I started driving in 1955, and I never owned an automatic until 1995. Ive driven for a week or more in three RHD countries, with stick shift.
Yes, I’ve never owned a car with an automatic transmission. Not only is the manual more fun, but you don’t have to worry about friends wanting to borrow it. Or someone stealing it.
why?
My current car has a six speed manual transmission. We just bought our first automatic in thirty years just last year.
I haven’t done so in decades, but in my youth I drove a variety of manual transmission cars in cities and in mountains. Even in San Francisco.
My company cars have been automatics, but I have no say in what they give me. My cars and trucks have always had standard transmissions. My current car is a 2011 Jeep Wrangler with a 6 speed.