Originally Posted by Chris142
Originally Posted by BMWTurboDzl
Sometimes I wish I could rev-match and heel/toe, but it's hard enough to resell a coupe in today's market I could only imagine how difficult it would be to resell a couple that had a 6mt.
Come here. I will teach you!
My f250 and my Jeep are manuals. I can't drive an automatic to save my life lol. My wife makes fun of me in the mountains in her FJ. I downshift the automatic for hills and can't figure out how to get the stupid shifter back into D at the bottom.
When I taught our cousin how to drive I taught her in my Jeep she prefers that over the automatic. She says it gives here more control over an automatic. She just turned 14.
My 350 and Subaru are manuals. There are definitely times where I get tired of driving the manual. I am also always afraid of wearing out the clutch parts in drive thrus or heavy traffic. Subarus are known for terrible throwout bearings, and everything in the F350 is 18 years old.
The Subaru is a fun manual transmission to drive. I do actually enjoy it. Proper gear spacing, a real 1st gear (not quite granny, but I'm not working the clutch). Close ratio. It can creep in traffic in 1st gear without riding the clutch.
My 350 is a terrible daily driver. I don't like riding the clutch to take off in 2nd, and the 1-2 shift is extremely slow unless I double clutch. And it has a granny gear so I get people mad when I have to make that long 1-2 shift at 3MPH in the middle of an intersection. I generally do like it for towing, I definitely would not trust a 18 year old 4R100 auto in the truck. But there have been times where the wide ratio ZF5 has hurt me in the hills. I'm either winding the daylights out of my 230K 1997 F150 engine in 2nd or 3rd gear , or going significantly slower than anything else at a reasonable RPM. One of the hills in PA I had to climb at 4500 in 2nd gear because the time it took to shift to 3rd and the RPM difference between the two was just too much. 2LO is nice for heavy traffic and tight maneuvering though. I had to use that in scranton when I got stopped on some really steep hills.
My Jeep is an automatic. I drive it maybe once a month on off road trips. I do like it on the rocks. Not so much for going down steep hills. It does confuse me the first time I drive it. I end up pushing the brake pedal to the floor the first few stop signs. Ultimately, I always end up two foot driving automatics. It was really confusing me the last time I drove it. Kept hitting park instead of reverse ... or neutral instead of drive.
The '11 Focus 5 speed I had was terrible. I called it a 6 speed missing 1st gear. Had to work the clutch way too much to take off. And in traffic it would idle at like 10MPH because 1st gear was way too tall which meant riding the brake or clutch in heavy traffic.