Yeah I learned with a clutch, its very useful to have that skill in many countries where automatic is not available or much cheaper to rent.
And what car did you learn in?
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1984@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Heavybell@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Still own one. Was looking at going to a Kona EV but sounds like there’s a wide spread reduction gear issue with the model I was considering, so maybe not.
raptore39@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Hah, you’re not getting my security answers that easily! 🚗
RBWells@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I learned in a car with automatic transmission first, but had to drive both and prefer (strongly prefer) a manual transmission.
Worst one ever - The Van. The shifter was about a meter long, the gears were so hard to find, and I had to drive it in tight spaces.
Best one ever, my current Honda from 2014. Absolutely glorious.
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 months ago
The fuck is a clutch? Oh, manual gear? I learned at driving school, I think all of them use manual cars in Brazil, since they’re way more common than automatics
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 months ago
An old Chevy pickup, with my dad mocking and bitching at me the entire time which really helped my anxiety about being on the road. Wonderful learning experience. First and last time I ever went out with him to learn to driving.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I believe the better question here is “clutch pedal” as automatic cars still have a clutch, you just aren’t manually booting it.
But yes I did learn to drive stick in a 2002 Mazda Protege.
RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
An 88 jeep Comanche with a blown up power steering pump and you had to hold it in reverse.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
An ancient 10 speed dodge dump truck doing sugar beet harvest in nodak.
Ringtail@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
🤘
FishFace@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The UK is becoming more automatic now, and we also have a lot of EVs. I learnt on a manual but didn’t get a car until last year, which is electric. It’s much better.
ellohir@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Here in Spain it’s estimated that automatic transmission is between 30 and 50% of cars. No official numbers have been released.
So most people have learnt with a clutch. Definitely everyone who has had their license for more than 10 years.
daannii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Dad had to replace the clutch before I had mastered the subtle art of doing two things at the same time in a car.
Also I’m dyslexic and get my right and left mixed up easily . So you can imagine trying to navigate two feet on 3 pedals didn’t go well.
I did eventually learn a manual.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 5 months ago
1972 AMC Hornet Station wagon with 3 on the tree. Literally The Green Hornet
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 months ago
1993 Isuzu rodeo.
87Six@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Learned in a Golf 7 and now I drive a Golf 4. It was delightful not having to turn off auto start stop after I got my license.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I did. 1993 Saturn SL2. I bought that car for $1500 in 2000 when I was 16 and quite literally drove it until the wheels fell off (which then ended in me flipping over the car on the highway, but that’s a story for another day. That also ended with being the reason I can’t listen to “The Red” by Chevelle without a mild panic attack, also a story for another day.
The idea of buying a 7 year old car (with only 93k miles, at that) for $1500 just seems so foreign now.
All it needed was a muffler, too. I drove it for about a year and a half before I killed the clutch, and that was the most expensive repair it had.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had a 4 speed Saturn. I loved it. Great car. Was so disappointed when they went out of business
AA5B@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Chevy Chevette. This may have been one of the worst cars built, take minutes to get up to speed and over-rev cruising in the highway, but it was also a tank that lived through 6 people learning to drive a stick and probably close to two decades.
It was also really easy to work on, but
- when I replaced the springs I found them light enough to compress by hand
- when my brother replaced the clutch he said it’s the only car he saw where the transmission was light enough to hold one handed while replacing
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 months ago
Common password recovery question…
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
VW T3 with a 4 speed manual and a Passat with a 3 speed slush box.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Learned to drive manual on a 1981 BMW 320i. All of my cars are still manual to this day. 1999 Toyota Solara, 1988 Toyota Corolla GTS, 2003 Toyota MR2 Spyder and 2020 Hyundai Veloster N. But mostly I ride my bike, which is also a manual.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I learned to drive on two cars because my parents were divorced: my Dad’s Ford Ranger (manual) and my Mom’s silly “talking” Chrysler Laser (it literally talked to you, felt weirdly futuristic see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_alert ). I never really had a problem with using a clutch, it was the last of power steering on that truck that sucked. I made sure that I never bought a car without power steering after learning on that truck.
IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Chevy S-10. I think a 1999? Around that anyway.
Still miss that little truck. The clutch had two positions - on and off. It was a pain to drive but once I learned on it I could drive anything.
I still drive stick today.
jpablo68@infosec.pub 5 months ago
1987 Golf, and I still drive a car with a clutch.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As someone who learned driving using a manual transmission car, automatic transmission is much better for city driving, I hated having to be careful with the clutch in stop and go city traffic, my left leg would get so sore after a while, plus I’ve stalled the engine more than once by letting the clutch go too fast.
AA5B@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah I finally went over to the dark side because of bostons horrendous stop and go traffic
teslasaur@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Learned with and still using stick.
I think it was a Renault Megane. Hopeless car. Left it outside in the cold one night. Every bit of wiring had shorted and if i turned on the wipers, the lights would flicker and the radio turned on.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sounds like your car was possessed
synapse1278@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Renault of that era are complet garbage, but still sold a tonne. This badly damaged their reputation and they took a long time to recover.
justsillyme@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
I forget what the cat is even called, but it was an old Subaru hatchback. I wanna say GT? Maybe there’s a number… I dunno but it was a tiny lil thing.
Haven’t given one since then, though. And I didn’t do too well with it either, but I am not a car guy, and I don’t drive in crazy road situations that would make it useful.
I’m still glad I learned that way though, as my cars since then made more sense to me. At least until now, since I have a hybrid with a CVT.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Nissan vanette and ford focus. Don’t miss either of those and have an automatic now. I still drive a friend’s van from time to time which has a clutch, whoch is good so I don’t forget how to drive it. Although it still feels completely natural since I drove manual for 2 decades.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I learned on a 1st gen Saturn. That’s before GM ruined the brand. It had a good deal of pickup to it, and was a lot of fun in the snow.
I don’t miss it though. If I lived somewhere I could joyride with zero hills, traffic or parallel parking, sure. Otherwise? It’s not worth it.
SW42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My driving school had 2002 Corollas. Had a lot of problems to get the „feel“ for the clutch and after I mastered that the most challenging thing for me was starting on a hill using the handbrake. Auto-Hold these days is truly a blessing :)