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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 3148436, member: 93"] Yeah, I disagree. I grew up driving stick and really, really love it. Started with "three on the tree" in a pickup truck and some other work vehicles and had nothing but manual transmissions for my first five cars or so, and several since, including while living in San Francisco for a year. If you can love driving a stick there--and I did--you really love it. I think it puts you more in touch with the car and I like the way that it feels; and the timing with the clutch is part of that. My last stick was a rear wheel drive BMW 530i, which I had to sell around 15+ years ago when we moved to the house where we live now, because the driveway is a pretty steep hill. I got an Audi A6, which had the sport mode that allowed manual shift in an automatic. I used it frequently for around a month but it wasn't the same, so I eventually stopped using it altogether. We've been to a couple European vacations since and, being a cheapskate, I was thrilled that the manual rental cars were so much cheaper and I really loved driving stick again. The best was Wales and Ireland, where you are sitting on the other side of the car, driving on the other side of the road, and shifting with your left instead of your right. When I loved that again, I knew it was genuine. I came back from that last trip convinced that I would be buying a stick for my daughters and teaching them how to drive on that. Let's just say that they weren't nearly as enthused about the idea, and it was quickly shuttled. [/QUOTE]

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