# Why do you prefer a stick-shift over an automatic transmission?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 28, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-prefer-a-stick-shift-over-an-automatic-transmission/919279 "2020-08-28T21:59:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-prefer-a-stick-shift-over-an-automatic-transmission/919279/7 "2020-08-28T22:33:55Z")

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Go drive a long bit of twisty highway with lots of uphill bits in the automatic, then the manual. Just trying to keep a slushbox in the right gear going up a long grade is maddening–a manual you PUT into the correct gear and it fucking well STAYS THERE until you tell the car to go into a different gear. They do suck in traffic though, no argument there.

Alas, my days of owning manuals are probably over–with a blown left knee and tendonitis in both shoulders driving a manual is an exercise in pain leading to complete inability. Sigh. Maybe some day I can afford a garage queen to take out only on nice days when I can put the top down and go get squirrelly sideways for a while.

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