Manual or automatic cars?

While there is a certain joy in driving a manual and just being able to say that you can drive one, its purpose in most American cities is not needed any longer. There is just too much traffic to deal with and it would become more of a hassle than anything else.

 

I prefer driving manuals as I feel it's a better experience. Like you become one with the car. Only time I don't prefer driving a manual automobile is in bumper to bumper traffic. Then I'd prefer an automatic transmission.

 

You are right But you gotta admit that learning to drive on a manual makes things a little bit more easy I recently had to drive an auto, by the way My boyfriend's new car in an auto one, so I'm really trying to get used to driving that car

 

Yeah, I know what you mean :/ I don't feel that over here tho, I don't like in the US and the traffic over here is not that bad But I understand that driving manual cars in a big city can be such a feat I'm starting to get used to automatic cars, by the way My boyfriend's new car is an automatic one, so... not a choice for me anymore!

 

Yaaaay! Same here!!! I feel I've so much control over the car and everything it does...! I prefer to drive manuals most of the time to be honest, mostly because I'm an extremely stubborn person I'm also a person of habits... I'm having such a hard time driving my boyfriend's new car (it's an automatic one).

 

I think I missed where "over here" is for you. Sorry about that. There are places and times in which a manual would be nice here, even in the big cities, but it would definitely have to be the weekend driver, not the daily one.

 

I prefer an automatic car mainly because I don't know how to drive a manual car. A manual car also looks difficult to drive. Learning how to switch to all of the different gears just seems confusing to me. I remember my mother learning how to drive a manual car and I think it took her several weeks before you she got the hang of it. An automatic just seems so much easier. As long as you know how to steer and know where the break is you can drive an automatic car.

 

Well, it's not that easy even driving an automatic. You still have to get used to the power of the car and the feel of it, but the learning curve is definitely less steep.

I think driving a manual actually makes you more alert as a driver because of all that you have to do to control it.

 

You're right, it can be kinda difficult for some to learn how to drive a manual car, specially if you're new to driving and cars in general That's why a lot people over here prefer to learn to drive on an automatic car. I was lucky enough to learn to drive on a manual one, so driving an automatic one is really easy for me. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but in the end it really paid off

 

I would prefer manual. They are really fun to drive. Even though you have to constantly be focused on changing gears and stuff it's still fun to drive. I've taken a manual on the highway and it was just cool changing gears and going really fast than all the other cars. It was a Honda, and used to be an automatic but my cousin turned it into a stickshift.

 

That's very interesting! My mom used to own a car that used to be an automatic one, but it was turned into a manual one! That car was a nightmare, there was something really wrong with that car, because it didn't seem to be working properly most of the time. It took them a while to find out what was wrong with it.
My boyfriend owns a honda as well, by the way

 

Owning and driving an automatic car is just the fault state of my health. Sine the age of 16 I have been driving a manual car with an auto not late last year when my doctor stated that I had to leave it aside. The great deal in these cars is that they do much of the driving and I could enjoy it being that I independently controlled its power and other operations. These cars are essentially less powerful and make you feel a bit of relaxation and comfort. However concurrently I drive a Citroen Nemo though fuel efficient, you can’t imagine of its sluggishness, clumsiness and inefficient. All the same it takes me to my destinations and I appreciate for that...

 

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Hi Fancy! Want kind of health issue do you have? I have a problem with my wrists, so I might need to stop driving manual cars after a couple of years. Some years ago I lost the sensibility in one of my hands (right one), it was pretty scary. I might need surgery later on. I guess I got this from palying so many video games. You're right, I don't really like how it feels to drive an automatic car, actually most cars in Europe (specially the Netherlands) are manual That's for a reason, my now ex boyfriend has a Honda Accord, that car was very powerful!

 

I can admit I fancy manual cars. I am just simple and I don’t like spending so much on the luxury part of life. Remembering that automatic cars drink more fuel to power their automatic mechanisms I don’t mind keeping my manual car for the best. I also love the idea that manual cars engage me much into the driving ensuring better control hence the better in cases when the climate is not much pleasing.

 

That's another great point in favour of my loved manual cars. This is specially important nowadays that gas prices seem to be just rising and rising! Gas prices over here keep rising and rising, but never doing down!

 

I don't like automatic cars. I never drove one, but I was already in one and it seems that the car is controlling the driver and not the opposite and I didn't enjoy that feeling.