How Many Of You Know How To Drive Stick?

[synreal]

i've just recently mastered<font size=1 color="#666666">*</font> double clutching and heal-toeing through corners yay for me.

i'll never go back to an automatic if i can help it, not nearly enough fun to drive.

<font size=1 color="#666666">* please note that the term 'mastered' in this case refers to "not having the car make funny noises and or smells during this action"</font>

[Thordic]

Problems with a stick:

A) How the hell do hold you McDonalds?
B) How would I put my arm around your momma?
C) I couldn't stick my left foot out the window to cool off.

I don't need more crap to do when I'm driving. Never learned how to drive stick, and I have no compulsion to ever learn.

[recoil]

heh you crazy americans

in the uk, if you take your test in an auto, you can only ever drive an auto until you pass your test in a manual.... but if you pass in a manual you can drive either

makes a little more sense imho

[headcase]

Originally posted by Thordic
Problems with a stick:

A) How the hell do hold you McDonalds?

Too easy, you learn how by doing it. Besides I've found the best driving food to be Beef Meximelts from the Bell. Taste great, everything is melted together, so you don't have toppings falling all over the place.

B) How would I put my arm around your momma?

Again too easy, it's not like you have to shift every two seconds. When I drive(with or without my wife in the car), my right hand usually ends up resting on the passenger seat. If it is anyone else I tend to hold the E-brake for some reason.

C) I couldn't stick my left foot out the window to cool off.

You got me there. But I don't do that while driving anything else anyway, what good is ONE cool foot?

[Iceman8446]

I love driving stick. I learned on my dads 86 corvette which me and him now autocross in. Its the only way to go.

[SSMercury]

I know how, my mother made me, but I drive just to town and back home mostly, so I drive an automatic transmission.

[spacemanspiff]

Driving stick is so much fun. You have so much more control over the car. Only thing that sucks with stick is having to sit in rush hour but its not that bad. LOL the funiest thing I ever did in a manual car is down shift hard on this guy that was tailgateing me all I heard was his breaks lock up

[Thordic]

Originally posted by headcase

You got me there. But I don't do that while driving anything else anyway, what good is ONE cool foot?

Its better than two hot feet

[Dayspring]

I'm with you... I can tell you this. Try off-roading with a manual. It sucks. You either are moving, or you aren't. There isn't any crawl. Rocks and such require some finesse and crawling over them is required.

Just remember- ANYBODY can stall a manual. It takes a REAL driver to stall an automatic.

Originally posted by Thordic
Problems with a stick:

A) How the hell do hold you McDonalds?
B) How would I put my arm around your momma?
C) I couldn't stick my left foot out the window to cool off.

I don't need more crap to do when I'm driving. Never learned how to drive stick, and I have no compulsion to ever learn.

[spacemanspiff]

Well some of the most awsome rock crawlers are manual. The gearing in them is so low that they can't literaly go over 4mph on a road. Its kind of a big dibate in the four wheel world to go manual or auotmatic. But what it all really comes down to is what you prefer.

[Magic37220]

Hah, My feet are too small to heel-toe when downshifting, but I can double clutch pretty well.

[Dayspring]

That's the problem with Xterras. Nobody has any crawler gears yet. And walking somebody through an area called "Rock Swamp" and they are either GOING or STOPPED, it can get hairy without aftermarket skids.

Originally posted by spacemanspiff
Well some of the most awsome rock crawlers are manual. The gearing in them is so low that they can't literaly go over 4mph on a road. Its kind of a big dibate in the four wheel world to go manual or auotmatic. But what it all really comes down to is what you prefer.

[Chupe]

kind of....

i can drive a stick in video games

[dre1919]

Oh yeah, I can drive one. I used to learn on one when I was 15 and then didn't drive one until many years later when I was 23. I got back into how to drive one in my buddy's car...a '99 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GS-T! That car was smoookin' fast and rode on rails. A great car to have a stick in. It was hella pretty too...all black, black convertable roof, black leather interior. And, it was the good Eclipse...with the smooth panels before they went and put those stupid ribs on the side panels. IMHO yuck!

[JEDI]

Stick is actually better if you gotta chick in the car. Besides the fact that they dig it, you can make all those cheesy "stick" jokes. Or you can get them to shift for you. Just imagine the possibilities!