What percentage of cars sold in Europe have manual transmissions?
Correct answer: Over 80 percent.
:(Nancy E):
There will be a day, maybe already here, when no younger people in USA can drive a standard transmission car.
Laudy Miss Claudy
I learned how to drive a stick shift in San Francisco. And I came close to burning out my clutch while balancing back and forth at those 4-way stop signs at the top of the hills.
pauloverall
Laudy Miss Claudy, use the handbrake
maz
hate automatics. I like to be in control and driving is just more fun with a gear stick. I am going to hate electric cars I just know it.
Player #26129643
Have owned 5 cars, all stick driven. No one ever asks to borrow your manual transmission car.
Player Glamingo60
I grew up on a ranch and learned to drive anything up to 10 gears. Backwards too. When I was 60 I said enough. I’m not rowing across town any more. Bought an automatic. Thank you, thank you very much.
YoungAtHeart
In Germany, driving school and the test for your license are done in a car with a stick shift.
Fun guy
manual also allows downshift braking important when descending steep mountain roads common in the Alps.
tunegrabber
:(Nancy E):, only after the farms are gone. lots of kids grow up driving manual transmission tractors.
ProudCanadian
I love watching teams on The Amazing Race try to drive a stick shift.
Nikoloz
Nostalgia. It’s so great to control your vehicle, by switching transmission manually, fully controlling your machine. But it’s true it is a bit annoying when you are in traffic. First gear, second gear, first gear, second gear. Some folks who drive automatic transmissions think that they know how to drive. I think if you don’t know how to drive a manual vehicle, you have no idea, what driving means. Sorry automatic folks.
chunk
everyone should have to learn stick
YSL
Dead battery in a manual car? Roll a bit and pop the clutch. You can't do that with an automatic.
RICK-N-BACHER
Terri, how are you not able to drive an automatic? start car, put in drive, go.
B Dog
Proud American clinging to his manual transmission, which is probably the last one I’ll ever own because they’re all but extinct here
Jennyzim
Almost impossible to buy manual cars in Australia now. I much preferred them. Driving an automatic is boring and you have less sense of being in control. I don’t even like automatic windows!
lori
just bought a wrangler with manual transmission. so much more fun to drive.
Player Say what!?
player384555, Biggest oxymoron: automatic sports cars or Jeeps. What a waste!
Player Say what!?
ProudCanadian, Annoys the heck out of me. They KNOW they're going to have to do it!
Charles
Laudy Miss Claudy, this is where the problem lies... It's called manual transmission not stick shift.
Ulvur Arnason
AtPeachtreeCreek, like all of Europe?
Player #44540030
Laudy Miss Claudy, then you didn't learn how to drive a manual transmission car
Player #45050794
in the UK you can sit an automatic only test. you can't drive manual cars with hat licence. you're classed as an inferior driver if you can't drive a manual.
Cranky Yankee
I have been driving manual transmissions since 1970. My Subaru is a manual and I'm dreading the day it hits 100,000 miles because I will be buying a new car. I will probably have to buy an automatic.
monyray1967
I learned to drive a stick shift (4 speed Suzuki Samurai) in Knoxville, TN. I later had a1989 Honda Accord DX 5 speed. I loved them!
Tayosmite
I learn to drive with a Nissan primera manual transmission car. car drivers who learn to drive with a stick shift are usually better drivers
Uninitialized
:(Nancy E):, I taught my three children to drive a Volkswagen 5-speed rabbit.
Jack
I learned to drive ,a three on a tree,,,3 speed on the steering column
Terri
I missed it! I knew it was high but not 80%!. My sister-n-law can't drive an automatic!
Laurie
my father was very deaf and went through about 4 clutches in a year... I tried getting his mechanic to explain how to use the tach to help know when to shift, but he wouldn't change his habits!