I would have agreed about mountains until last weekend... (Reply #18)

In the discussion thread: Why Stick Shifts Are Going Extinct. The End of the Stick Shift. [View all]

Fri Jun 4, 2021, 01:36 AM

18. I would have agreed about mountains until last weekend...

My new Golf GTI with its farting DSG transmission won me over. Lots of hairpin bends and stopping due to rockslides being repaired, but I felt I had a better grip on the road and more control of the GTI than I ever did with my old car with hits manual transmission. Then again, my old car was old and didn't have sports mode, while the GTI has sports mode and has like 8 gears. Plus it looks so cute and sporty! And I can hook my phone up and use Google Assistant to do the voicey thing!

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111 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why Stick Shifts Are Going Extinct. The End of the Stick Shift. [View all]	Yavin4	Jun 2021	OP
Sad, in a way. I get a lot of pleasure from shifting.	lagomorph777	Jun 2021	#1
My guess is that this is an outcome from being in a car dependent culture.	Yavin4	Jun 2021	#3
It's just a general technological progression	Happy Hoosier	Jun 2021	#14
I was just never a big fan	stopdiggin	Jun 2021	#48
I'm wit'cha	Happy Hoosier	Jun 2021	#94
And once you're long out of practice or have never learned at all...	JHB	Jun 2021	#51
Possibly, though I find that when I do need to use stick, I remember just fine.	Happy Hoosier	Jun 2021	#95
My 2007 VW turned 118 this year....	OAITW r.2.0	Jun 2021	#2
I have always driven manuals	dflprincess	Jun 2021	#4
That is too bad, the young people will never know what they are missing.	Bev54	Jun 2021	#5
My 30-year-old daughter refuses to buy anything else.	Ms. Toad	Jun 2021	#10
Yes my son, in his 30's had stick in his trucks, although not now	Bev54	Jun 2021	#12
I know what I'm missing...	brooklynite	Jun 2021	#63
I lived 4 years in SE Asia and drove stick, on the other side of the road	Bev54	Jun 2021	#91
I won't miss the 2400 dollars I spent on my previous vehicle when the tranny went.	Marrah_Goodman	Jun 2021	#90
I've always believed stick shift drivers are better drivers	Ron Obvious	Jun 2021	#6
I agree with you. You absolutely have to pay more attention...	3catwoman3	Jun 2021	#9
Had that happen to me in SF	shanti	Jun 2021	#19
Subaru stick Impreza has a button for that	burrowowl	Jun 2021	#33
That's nice!	shanti	Jun 2021	#99
heck, my 2017 Chevy Colorado automatic has hill assist	OriginalGeek	Jun 2021	#103
Some of those SF hills with the stop signs at a	moonscape	Jun 2021	#20
yep. and wore the clutch out	stopdiggin	Jun 2021	#50
It's one of the reasons I still have a car with stick shift.	GoCubsGo	Jun 2021	#55
There's no doubt in my mind that those of us that drive stick shifts	MarineCombatEngineer	Jun 2021	#59
I can drive a stick shift	iemanja	Jun 2021	#79
1994 Audi S4	Casady1	Jun 2021	#7
You can't mess with your phone if you have to deal with a stick shift.	tanyev	Jun 2021	#8
My 30 y/o daughter, who has never driven anything but a manual,	Ms. Toad	Jun 2021	#11
Love manuals in mountains. But in a big city, gave in to autos at age 48.	Hoyt	Jun 2021	#13
I would have agreed about mountains until last weekend...	Violet_Crumble	Jun 2021	#18
Is that yours in the pic?	ms liberty	Jun 2021	#42
Nah, it's a doppelganger, except mine's got tinted windows....	Violet_Crumble	Jun 2021	#66
Great car for fun in the mountains.	RegularJam	Jun 2021	#49
I have a VW Golf 1.8T auto now. Love that car, and would love a GTI. Had an original 1984 GTI.	Hoyt	Jun 2021	#71
All I drive are manual transmission vehicles	UpInArms	Jun 2021	#15
Same here.	GoCubsGo	Jun 2021	#52
My 21 yo insisted on buying a manual two years ago	MissB	Jun 2021	#16
I learnt to drive in a manual...	Violet_Crumble	Jun 2021	#21
Automatics are all part of the great dumbing down	Blue Owl	Jun 2021	#17
You can NOT blast Radar Love in an automatic	ChubbyStar	Jun 2021	#25
Lol, why not use crank shafts to start engine?? Nt	USALiberal	Jun 2021	#37
In Europe, the rental agencies still have a lot of stick shifts-	dawg day	Jun 2021	#22
Funny Related Story	ProfessorGAC	Jun 2021	#41
Hah! Not if they know you are American!	GulfCoast66	Jun 2021	#47
I can see that you stick-lovers live in flat level-ground areas	FakeNoose	Jun 2021	#65
I remember reading that manual burns more calories	dawg day	Jun 2021	#88
Pittsburgh? Hah! Those aren't hills, they're barely pimples!	GoneOffShore	Jun 2021	#111
When I was renting cars here, I would specify manual. There was never a problem.	GoneOffShore	Jun 2021	#108
Have seen you in a while. How is Lyon treating you!	GulfCoast66	Jun 2021	#109
Actually we're in Aix-en-Provence, only three hours south of Lyon.	GoneOffShore	Jun 2021	#110
2006 Toyota Corolla 5 Speed	alphafemale	Jun 2021	#23
I can drive a stick shift	vercetti2021	Jun 2021	#24
My husband wants to buy a used	Tree Lady	Jun 2021	#26
My oldest son drives autocross and his car is an S2000.	mnhtnbb	Jun 2021	#36
We bought are very first automatic a few years ago. A Honda Fit, couldn't get a manual.	yonder	Jun 2021	#27
I had a Fit with a CVT auto... hated it. When I came to a stop it always took off in faux second gea	mitch96	Jun 2021	#43
...	yonder	Jun 2021	#73
My wife's car is a 2011 Honda Fit Sport	MurrayDelph	Jun 2021	#74
The CVT on a Prius (I had a prius V) and it's pretty good. I also test drove a new Honda CRV	mitch96	Jun 2021	#92
1998 BMW M3... ah the memories	Layzeebeaver	Jun 2021	#28
Last time I drove a manual transmission ...	Straw Man	Jun 2021	#29
I just paid $655 today on repairs for my 2005 Ford Focus 5-speed here in San Francisco.	NBachers	Jun 2021	#30
2020 was the first year in which sales of automatics were more than manuals in the UK	muriel_volestrangler	Jun 2021	#31
A few years ago I was in Ireland and EVERY car/truck/taxi I was in had a manual..	mitch96	Jun 2021	#45
I have two stick shifts. One is a 2019 model.	NutmegYankee	Jun 2021	#32
I restored and drive a 1970 Volvo 1800E	PCIntern	Jun 2021	#34
Bwah-ha-haa, just wait 'til you see what's really coming	Rstrstx	Jun 2021	#35
I see that happening	RandiFan1290	Jun 2021	#44
Hated stick shifts! Still do! This thread cracks me up! Nt	USALiberal	Jun 2021	#38
Not scientific, just a feeling, but I think standards made me a better driver.	chriscan64	Jun 2021	#39
Sticks are a blast to drive	Deminpenn	Jun 2021	#40
"Do think that stick shifts give drivers more control". Yes. The combination of b eing able to	mitch96	Jun 2021	#46
I have that same transmission in a Mustang	DVRacer	Jun 2021	#77
Manual transmissions save gas	ripcord	Jun 2021	#53
Over what maybe an old school non lockup converter	DVRacer	Jun 2021	#78
I regularly beat the fuel economy of the automatic version of my car.	NutmegYankee	Jun 2021	#107
BS, big rig to VW van, stick is far superior to any automatic transmission.	denbot	Jun 2021	#54
I'm right there with you on that denbot.	MarineCombatEngineer	Jun 2021	#61
Last truck I drove before retirement was a Volvo auto	liberaltrucker	Jun 2021	#93
Hubby always buys stick and all the kids learned to drive both	Maeve	Jun 2021	#56
When I was visiting Ukraine, 90% of the cars were stick shifts	Tommy Carcetti	Jun 2021	#57
I used to drive nothing buts sticks. MR2 Turbo, Corvettes, Miatas...but my legs & knees are,	Dial H For Hero	Jun 2021	#58
Even the trucking industry are phasing out manual trans,	MarineCombatEngineer	Jun 2021	#60
A long time ago,	Tracer	Jun 2021	#62
The end of push starting, too, I guess.	Roisin Ni Fiachra	Jun 2021	#64
Including me, multiple times.	Ilsa	Jun 2021	#69
What? I used to start an automatic when I was in college. It had a carborater...old car and	Demsrule86	Jun 2021	#81
I'm old, so I grew up with manual transmissions.	MineralMan	Jun 2021	#67
An automatic transmission is a great theft deterrent	Jose Garcia	Jun 2021	#68
Isn't it a shame that nobody has to crank the engine anymore?	brooklynite	Jun 2021	#70
This message was self-deleted by its author	tinrobot	Jun 2021	#75
I have 2 vehicles- one is a manual and frankly it's a pain	Arazi	Jun 2021	#72
Drove a stick for decades. Now I drive electric. It's so much better.	tinrobot	Jun 2021	#76
My sister loves them...she has always driven a stick. Last time I was home, I took her car	Demsrule86	Jun 2021	#80
My first car in the 80s was a stick shift. I wouldn't want to go back.	Politicub	Jun 2021	#82
Given how much our American lifestyle forces us to drive, this was inevitable.	Yavin4	Jun 2021	#83
I was trained to drive stick years ago...	Buckeye_Democrat	Jun 2021	#84
Good. (nt)	Paladin	Jun 2021	#85
My first driving lesson was learning to shift for my step dad.	Hotler	Jun 2021	#86
It will soon join the choke knob in the museum	dalton99a	Jun 2021	#87
I can drive one, but there are things about it that are annoying to me	Marrah_Goodman	Jun 2021	#89
It'll never end for me	Polybius	Jun 2021	#96
I used to be a manual transmission purist as well.	beaglelover	Jun 2021	#97
Even automatic is push button now.	ananda	Jun 2021	#98
As a smoker and habitual coffee drinker when I drove a stick	LanternWaste	Jun 2021	#100
It took me several months to find my used Audi TTRS	Ghost of Tom Joad	Jun 2021	#101
as passenger...shifting makes me motion sick and nauseous	Demovictory9	Jun 2021	#102
I can drive a stick shift car like I ride a bicycle or motorcycle. I don't have think about it.	hunter	Jun 2021	#104
I have my first automatic now. I miss my sticks!	nolabear	Jun 2021	#105
Looking to replace my 5 sp Focus soon...	EX500rider	Jun 2021	#106

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