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Fumesucker

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18. My car has a manual transmission as well as a manual top and even manual windows

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2015, 01:16 PM

Apr 2015

Sixteen going on seventeen years old and 160K, it's still practical, comfortable, good looking, runs very well and gets 30+ mpg on the highway, 27 or so in town.

Operating the manual transmission on a curvy country road with the manual top and manual windows down on a nice Fall day is a lot of fun, my grandkids are all chomping at the bit to learn to drive it since their parents have boring minivans and SUVs, the eldest gets her license next year.

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Just saw an article in a local shopper's weekly, about manual transmissions. [View all] Archae Apr 2015 OP

there used to be a MPG advantage to a stick but that is no longer the case. corkhead Apr 2015 #1

Ford quit putting them in all trucks back in 2013. n/t oneshooter Apr 2015 #3

Ferrari doesn't make a manual anymore either snooper2 Apr 2015 #20

Some of us can't even operate a manual. n/t PoliticAverse Apr 2015 #2

and too many can't even read one. n/t TheCowsCameHome Apr 2015 #12

ROFLMAO snooper2 Apr 2015 #21

I love to work a manual transmission on an open, curvy road Auggie Apr 2015 #4

My wife has always had a manual tranny titaniumsalute Apr 2015 #5

Love manual transmissions. Several of our cars have them. Brickbat Apr 2015 #6

I drove manual transmission cars until I was sufrommich Apr 2015 #7

It's a US thing to drive automatics tammywammy Apr 2015 #8

not in Europe Locrian Apr 2015 #9

They never go bad. An automatic eventually Ron Green Apr 2015 #10

Is that the printed thingy in the glove box... TheCowsCameHome Apr 2015 #11

I haven't owned an automatic trans in 25 years Galileo126 Apr 2015 #13

FOUR ON THE FLOOR!!!! Hepburn Apr 2015 #14

Good and bad pipi_k Apr 2015 #15

Caveat: In America Xithras Apr 2015 #16

The scarcity of automatic transmissionsin the UK is a plot point in JK Rowling's latest Retrograde Apr 2015 #17

She hadn't been doing it long. Xithras Apr 2015 #19

My car has a manual transmission as well as a manual top and even manual windows Fumesucker Apr 2015 #18

I have that one in black! 110k and 16 years old, it's awesome! bettyellen Apr 2015 #23

I love manual, forced you to be an engaged and playful driver bettyellen Apr 2015 #22