Long story short: I’m (24M) American, and I’m visiting my long-distance Romanian boyfriend for the first time soon. In Romania, most cars are manual - including all the ones owned by my boyfriend’s family (I’ll be staying with them). I’ve never driven a manual before. His dad told me he can give me a quick lesson, and that I’m welcome to use their cars if I want; otherwise, I can rent an automatic. I don’t have access to any manual cars here in the U.S. to practice on, so I’m not sure what to do.
It’s easy
It’s also a great way to be more connected to your vehicle and what’s happening. You have to be more aware of things, anticipate corners, hills etc.
Automatics have made people lazy and disconnected
That’s why I drive a manual with no power steering, power brakes, ABS or traction control.
Manual windows and no power locking and I find power window wipers make this generation soft too.
My mans over here saving the planet
You don’t have an automatic starter do you? Things started going downhill when we stopped manually cranking the engine
Why did you stop? I still manually crank most of my engines. (between lawn mowers and collectables I have a lot of engines without electric start) . I spend a lot of time filing points as we… Even when I have electric start, I find getting moving and popping the clutch works just fine.
My recent automatics have been 8 speeds. Do you drive an 8 speed manual?
4 speed connected to a transfer case with hi/low