Do you know how to drive stick shift? *POLL*

Poll Poll Do you know how to drive a stick shift?

  • YES

    Votes: 50 96.2%

  • NO

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • Total voters
    52
In the UK our burgers are tiny, our fries are called chips and come in little trays not big buckets and 99% of our cars have stick shifts (called gear levers).

Autos are actually a bit of a rarity over here.
 
You'll find the vast majority of UK and European drivers can handle manual gearboxes

It's fairly rare in the UK to find a driver who can't because, if you take your driving test in a car with a slushbox, you get a licence that is only valid for auto transmission cars.
 
GreyZed said:
Autos are actually a bit of a rarity over here.
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I don't think that's really true anymore - smaller cars tend to be manuals but, as you move upmarket, cars are more likely to be autos - some luxury cars are very hard to sell second-hand if they have manual transmission
 
PerryGunn said:
as you move upmarket, cars are more likely to be autos - some luxury cars are very hard to sell second-hand if they have manual transmission
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Yep well said - the upmarket Zeds are all autos! :lol:
 
My ex couldn't drive a manual.....I couldn't take the embarrassment. The current missus has to learn how to proficiently heel-toe before I'll propose :wink:
 
RJG said:
Xiaxio said:
I am just curious as to how many of you guys are like me and don't know how to drive a stick shift.
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It's easy, just listen to your engine.
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I'm good with that. I drive my zed in semi auto all the time. I love it! I just can't practice on anyones manual car. Best practice I got was learning to move 18 wheelers forword and backword at work. I just need practice actually moving the car! :? Until then my man card is revoked. :cry:
 
I can, but drive an auto. My wife failed miserably - and expensively - to learn to drive a manual, so has an auto-only licence. Which is why I have an auto Z4. That she has driven precisely once :headbang:
 
Bing said:
I can, but drive an auto. My wife failed miserably - and expensively - to learn to drive a manual, so has an auto-only licence. Which is why I have an auto Z4. That she has driven precisely once :headbang:
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Do you atleast drive it in semi automatic?
 
Xiaxio said:
Bing said:
I can, but drive an auto. My wife failed miserably - and expensively - to learn to drive a manual, so has an auto-only licence. Which is why I have an auto Z4. That she has driven precisely once :headbang:
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Do you atleast drive it in semi automatic?
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Only when I'm driving for fun - every day commuting and around town it stays in full auto, just easier.
 
Learned in a 62 Hillman, don't think they had auto boxes available in those cars 8)

Want to learn to drive stick Xiaxio, get a big old 4x4 and a parking lot . Put it in low range and play...you can't stall them and you have to shift to go faster than walking pace... :wink: I taught my wife in a Landcruiser 1 ton pickup, parking lot dividers don't mean anything to those old tanks :D
 
LMAO yep I know how to dirve a stick shift, but I remember getting stuck on a hill and sitting through 3 red lights back in my first car back when I was learning to.
 
Wa'ya said:
LMAO yep I know how to dirve a stick shift, but I remember getting stuck on a hill and sitting through 3 red lights back in my first car back when I was learning to.
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:rofl: :rofl: Who hasn't done that :? :? :? THEN they tell you about the handbrake trick, the bastards :x
 
mcbeee said:
Wa'ya said:
LMAO yep I know how to dirve a stick shift, but I remember getting stuck on a hill and sitting through 3 red lights back in my first car back when I was learning to.
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:rofl: :rofl: Who hasn't done that :? :? :? THEN they tell you about the handbrake trick, the bastards :x
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:rofl: :rofl: uh huh grin, still remember that my dad told me not to go into town in it until I had time to practice, but you know a kid... made a bee line to show off :lol:
 
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