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Anonymous10/15/25, 20:29No.28672758I don’t get the obsession with manuals
I’ve driven nothing but manuals until recently and don’t see the preference for manual. On twisty back roads I’m just in 3rd most of the time and occasionally shit down to 2nd. Having an auto you can manually shift is hardly any less enjoyable than a manual. I could see if you had close gears, but most street cars don’t have that.
>why don’t you go above 3rd?
Because if you go fast on the straights you’re just gonna wind up stuck behind a normie going the speed limit.
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Anon10/15/25, 20:32No.28672761
>american goblin paws scrawled this post
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Anon10/15/25, 20:34No.28672764
>DUDE BRO LE MENAUL BAD THREAD IM SO ORIGINAL PLEASE GIT 2 ME 300 REPLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anon10/15/25, 20:39No.28672772
I rarely use my brakes to the point that people pull beside me on the freeway and say my brake lights don't work
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Anon10/15/25, 20:44No.28672780
ur gay lol
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Anon10/15/25, 20:45No.28672781
Some people are too stupid to count past 6, so paddle shift transmissions with 7 or more gears scare them
There's no other logical reason
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Anon10/15/25, 20:48No.28672784
Skill issue
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Anon10/15/25, 20:52No.28672789
Its losers trying to feel superior.
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Anon10/15/25, 21:07No.28672829
Some automatics are slushy. A direct connection is just better.
A manual is better than a DCT for street driving because you know from a touch what gear you’re in. On the track where you’re always on it and always shifting so it’s on your mind what gear you’re in a DCT is fine if you’re going for lap times. But on the street where you might’ve put it in 4th a couple miles back, it’s nice that just a touch tells you you’re not in 3rd.
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Anon10/15/25, 21:08No.28672835
I enjoy it.
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Anon10/15/25, 23:24No.28673063
i got stuck in a rut on a muddy road once and managed to rock back and forth by playing with the clutch and gas and eventually break free. wouldn't have been possible with an auto. if your battery is dead you can roll start. way easier to service and parts are cheaper (yes I've done it). if you drive on hilly roads engine braking will save your brakes.
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Anon10/15/25, 23:35No.28673071
I'm 35 Ive earned the right to drive automatic.
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Anon10/16/25, 01:39No.28673201
Poor people need to attach their egos onto something or else they'll kill themselves. By the time they have a semblance of money they can't let go of their "preference" of using poor cars so they have to mask it with some excuse like road feel or being connected to the car. Typical gay shit
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Anon10/16/25, 01:52No.28673215
it's a superiority complex. faggots say they love manuals but apparently never fucking buy them, as evident by them rotting on dealership lots and manufacturers eventually giving up entirely. It's the boomer and tough-guy mentality of bragging about some esoteric skill they had that invariably proves that they had a harder life than you, or that they're smarter or more sophisticated than you. but the numbers don't lie, and these faggots never actually showed up and purchased any of their beloved manual cars.One could liken manual fags to linux users. A very, very loud minority.
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Anon10/16/25, 02:14No.28673247
Pretty much this. If you're a "car guy" you already have no interesting personality and people think you're weird.
So instead of getting a real personality you double down on it by also making driving a manuel a part of your personality (applies to amerimutts only).
If you're a failure in life by every real metric, at least you can think about how your car's transmission is better than those "npc car"s transmission
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Anon10/16/25, 03:05No.28673354
you fucked up buying a cuckbox in manual lol
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Anon10/16/25, 03:07No.28673362
See? Manualniggers would prefer to make up obviously false scenarios to defend their preference than realize that they lost the "fun" and "performance" fights multiple decades ago
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Anon10/17/25, 06:04No.28675114
I feel so dumb and full of dread right now because something bad could've happened to me today.I got an old manual car yesterday. First time ever driving a car with a stick, but I've rode motorcycles in the past, so I know how manual works. I was completely fine driving yesterday, did everything right and didn't stall the engine. That brings us to today...>got into my car
>held down the clutch and fired up the engine
>I let my foot off the clutch absentmindedly, my brain thought I was starting up an Automatic car and that I was still in "Park" (in actuality, I was in 1st gear.)
>The car jumped forward and stalled
FORTUNATELY, VERY FORTUNATELY, I was parked on the street and nobody was in front of me. I feel so fucking stupid and that dread I feel is the realization that if my neighbor were home I would've just plowed into his car. He would've parked directly in front of me. That could have been a costly mistake and I would've been so embarrassed.Sorry, I just wanted to get that off of my chest. I won't let that happen ever again.
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Anon10/17/25, 12:47No.28675354
I like manuals because they are smooth and chill as long as you play the part. There are no surprise behaviors from gearbox. And you will always be in the right gear for the corner in advance not somewhere later the down the line so upsetting the car's balance is less of an issue when you don't have a lot of grip. Automatics can't predict what's ahead but only react to whatever is going on at the moment, and sometimes they get things wrong. Shift times don't matter to me.
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Anon10/17/25, 13:00No.28675366
Different people like different things.
You don't need to understand why.
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Anon10/17/25, 13:27No.28675396
Hey anon, it's okay to not value something someone else values. I like driving stick and the roads I drive on have me shifting between 2-4 very often. If you find no difference in joy between driving an auto and stick, then picking an auto is perfectly acceptable.
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Anon10/17/25, 13:32No.28675401
I like manual because it's fun to drive
Similarly I like playing fighting games on stick
I guess I like sticks in general
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Anon10/17/25, 15:33No.28675598
Probably because you're on the spectrum. Good luck with that. I'm gonna keep driving manual because it's fun as fuck and part of the essence of enjoying a drive with soul.
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Anon10/17/25, 18:01No.28675828
You have incredibly bad takes OP and you're almost certainly lying. Show me these roads where you're in 3rd most of the time.
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Anon10/17/25, 18:53No.28675919
Why do Americans idolise and overcomplicate this so much? Every single video of them driving a manual car is torture. You shouldn’t drive them, because none of you can drive at even a basic level
>gets in
>revs it to the moon
>dumps clutch
>smashes it into gear
>the car lurches forward
>red lines it before 2nd
>stomps on the clutch whilst the accelerator is still down
>grenades the driveline going into 2nd gear
heh I guess autoKEKtics wouldn’t get how BASED this is and how much more RELIABLE this is than using an autoTRAGIC
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Anon10/17/25, 23:26No.28676428
Driving a manual made sense to me as soon as I realized it's "analog," like using the joystick and triggers on a video game controller. If you give that hint to a gamer, he'll figure it out really quickly.
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Anon10/18/25, 05:35No.28676807
Built in theft deterrent. End Thread.
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Anon10/18/25, 06:34No.28676837
It's more control of the car making driving more engaging.
Would you think it'd make driving more fun if you had a car that would brake or throttle for you?
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Anon10/18/25, 12:49No.28677130
I just don't feel comfortable having to trust an automaton to do shifting for me.
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Anon10/18/25, 13:13No.28677146
Simple answer, a stick shift gives you the ability to control engine braking, something an auto doesn't and thus you can control the car to a much higher degree, especially around corners etc. Plus most auto's excluding modern double clutch units are frikkin dog slow to react. Also the ability to control engine rpm is critical during fast driving.