Poll: Can you drive a stick?

In My Humble Opinion
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(1) Are you comfortable driving a manual transmission?
Yes. I prefer it.

(2) What country do you live in?
USA.

(3) How old are you (roughly)?
Mid-40s.

222
  1. Yes I drove a stick shift for years, I prefer automatics.
  2. USA
  3. 47

Where I live, in rural America, I don’t know anyone that has a manual transmission. The last stick shift I was in was in the Cayman Islands, Feb 1998. I drove the stick shift, steering wheel on the right side and driving on the left hand side of the road. The shifting wasn’t bothersome, I had trouble with the blinkers.

223
  1. Yes. Learned to drive in a standard.
  2. USA
  3. 47

I’ll admit I’d probably have trouble adjusting to a British stick, using the “wrong” hand.

224

1- Sure, I love 'em. All of my favorite cars I’ve owned over the years (3 VW Beetles, 1 MG Midget, 1 Austin Healy Sprite, 1 Ford Ranger P.U.) were all stick shift.

2- U.S.

3- 43

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(The responses in this thread are likely skewed because it’s a self-selected population).

(1) I’m so comfortable driving a stick that I feel very uncomfortable when I find myself having to drive a car with an automatic.
(2) USA
(3) Roughly, three million, but in your numbering system, mid-40s.

226
  1. Yes, but I just learned. It’s much smoother on a motorcycle than in a car, for me.
  2. American
  3. 27 (Holy crap! That’s almost 30!)
227

(1) Somewhat
(2) Californistan
(3) 46

I prefer automatics.

228

A) I have only ever driven a manual and all the cars that I and my immediate family have ever owned have been manuals. I hate the idea of driving an automatic, though I confess I have never had the opportunity to try. Changing gears myself is part of the rhythm of driving for me.

B) Australia

C) 24

229

  1. I prefer stick.

  2. I’m from and learned to drive first in Spain; learned to drive automatic in the US. I assume what you want to know is where we learned to drive, really, not where we sleep at night :stuck_out_tongue:

  3. 40

230

Yes
US, NC
48

I bought a car with a stick before I knew how to drive one, my brother had to drive it home from the dealer. It was a great incentive for me to learn to drive it quickly.

231

  1. Yes, absolutely. I had an Austin Healy that I put about a bajillion miles on. I learned to drive on a '73 Chevy Vega (go ahead and laugh, I do)

  2. United States, Ohio

  3. 51

I made sure my kids, boy and girl, learned to drive stick too.

232
  1. Never drive anything else if I can avoid it
  2. English
  3. 47
233

(1) I prefer and drive a stick. Learned to drive an automatic. While stationed in Okinawa, learned to drive a standard.
(2) USA
(3) 43 as of yesterday.

234

  1. Yes. I prefer them.

  2. U.S.A.

  3. 59

235

So why are people doing a poll from last March?:confused:

236

  1. Most of the vehicles I have owned have had manual transmissions

  2. USA

  3. 44

237

Where are all these American stick drivers coming from? In my everyday life in California, I hardly ever see anything but automatics. Nobody I know personally drives a stick.

Ed

238

Well we have a few dozen stick drivers in here out of 300 million Americans. Not too significant. :wink:

239

Only if there’s an automobile attached to it…
OK who resurrected the zombie thread?

240

It’s a self selecting poll. Why would anyone post here other than to feel smug about their ability to drive manual transmissions and to feel superior to those proles that can’t comprehend the magic of the 3 pedals?
Of course, I’ll have you know that I operate both left-hand and right-hand drive manual transmissions with ease, AND I double clutch on every downshift.

How about those lazy sods with can’t drive without use syncros, wot wot?
25, Canada.