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.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    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.

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      23 days ago

      You don’t have an automatic starter do you? Things started going downhill when we stopped manually cranking the engine

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        23 days ago

        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.