When I drive, I am one with my vehicle! I have the gear stick up my ass and twerk to change gears, like a MAN!

Try sitting in traffic for 2 hours with a stick, moving 10 feet at a time, and we can talk about how much you love manual

Cars aren't about driving. You want to drive? Go to the track.
Cars are about getting from point A to point B. Bring on full automation please!

I had a car with push button start and a CVT. After putting the first 50 miles on the car, the brake light switch died. Nissan, in their ultimate wisdom, used the brake light switch to tell the computer if you are pressing the brake when starting the car. Well, no brake light switch, no starting the engine. Had to get it towed back to the dealership to get fixed.

I now have a real key and a manual transmission.

Or the car will be like "You're creeping forward with your driver's door open? I'm going to slam in to park without even asking first then all my dash lights will be going full xmas mode while I beep incessantly. Because fuck you, that's why."

I actually was a real advocate for gears, then I drove my wife's new car for some time. Modern automatic isn't only comfortable, it's actually more (fuel) efficient, especially in the city. Now I'm an automatic guy. And - the circle of life - my daughter, looking for her first car this year: "No, I want gears!" Now she's got gears. In a car that weighs less than my phone, but hey, what do I old 🥔 potato know.

Manual transmission is also a great anti-theft device, since most kids don't know how to drive it.

I drive manual, it's great for my ADHD haha keeps me from fucking around inside my car in traffic.

That being said, the person who made this needs to calm down. It's not that serious.

That's an American problem. In Europe nearly everyone knows how to drive manually.

"EMBRACE THE COMPLEXITY OF MANUAL TRANSMISSION

• CARS are not just about driving, they're about mastering the ART of machinery!
• Want to feel alive on a steep hill? Forget simplicity, EMBRACE the handbrake juggle and the dance of the clutch pedal!
• "I could simply shift to D, but where's the thrill in that?" - A call to arms by the Connoisseurs of Complexity.
• DEFEND your right to a gearbox that requires three limbs and a keen sense of timing to operate!

CELEBRATE MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS (These are the cryptic contraptions deciphered only by the Worthy)

ZIGZAG MAZE? - Challenge accepted! VOLUME KNOB? - Twist and shout your way through the gears! ???????? - Only the true driver knows!

"Please engage the starter motor." - "Certainly, after I adjust the choke and check the distributor!" "I fear no hill start, for I have the power of the clutch and the arcane knowledge of the gearbox!"

Join the ranks of those who drive not for convenience, but for the pure, unadulterated challenge."

Does anybody have the version of this about roads, intersections and such? I've been trying to find it but don't really know what to search

Don't worry, AI transmission works most of the time (but every now and then it may hallucinate on the highway...)

Real men use steam. What is with your prissy internal combustion engines? Shovel coal like a real driver.

As someone studying tech, yes please, give me the dummest most rudimentary car with no computer or servos. I don't want general motors to gather my biometrics or a script kiddy to disable my steering. Dumb technology is best always. Fuck that android auto bs or whatever abomination the manufacturer adds. Just want a speaker with an aux cord so I can listen to my flacs

Surely the volume knob isn't a real gear stick, right?

Here's a thought, get a car made in the same decade. Your experience on budget automatic from 2001 doesn't represent modern cars.

hey i made this :) nice

Oh you mean the prndl?

Fuck if I dont miss bump-starting my old ford falcon.

I'm still perplexed by my grandfather driving around in a manual with a beer and a cigarette. Did the WWII generation have a third hand?

"Real men use rocks to fight." says the man to another man with a gun.