1982 SAAB 900. No turbo, no sunroof. No frills. Still a fun car to drive
And what car did you learn in?
Submitted 5 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Professorozone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Holy crap! My wife’s Solara has 368,000 miles on it and I thought that was a lot.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had a total of 6 SAABs. I was a delivery driver that did long distance deliveries, mostly donated organs. None of them died before 1.2 million miles. The closest I ever got to the 2 million mile club was my 1986 SAAB 900 SPG that I got to a whopping 1,854,35*,*** miles. I don’t remember the small digits. There are still SAABs out there that are joining that club, and they haven’t made one since 2011
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 5 months ago
1.5 million???
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had a total of 6 SAABs. I was a delivery driver that did long distance deliveries, mostly donated organs. None of them died before 1.2 million miles. The closest I ever got to the 2 million mile club was my 1986 SAAB 900 SPG that I got to a whopping 1,854,35*,*** miles. I don’t remember the small digits. There are still SAABs out there that are joining that club, and they haven’t made one since 2011
Vupware@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I didn’t learn to drive in a vehicle with a clutch, but I did learn to drive vehicles with clutches! I love manual transmission cars. Been fighting the urge to make a poor financial decision and scoop one up before they’re gone.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I was 15 in the 90s, every adult in the family, and adult friends of the family, said “You’re 15? Let’s go drive for an hour or two!” I’m pretty sure that, legally, a parent was supposed to be with me, but I guess any random adult was close enough.
I just added up 14 different vehicles I “learned on,” including an old pickup with “three on the tree”, a Corvette, a 280z turbo, a 68 Chevelle, an International Scout. The rest were boring vehicles. If I remember correctly, 9 were manuals.
ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Suzuki Samurai FTW
synapse1278@lemmy.world 5 months ago
toomanypancakes@piefed.world 5 months ago
I learned to drive in a big ass truck, but I did recently get my first manual transmission car. It's not that hard to learn I don't think.
bunkyprewster@startrek.website 5 months ago
Mazda GLC
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 5 months ago
My first car was a '73 VW Super Beetle.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I learned on an automatic and didn’t know stick. Did that stop me from buying an old manual Mustang? Nope. I figured I had some practice with manual shifting in racing games (console), surely it couldn’t be that hard. I stalled plenty of times leaving the lot but once I got it going it was fine. It only really took a couple days of dropping clutch and stalling on hills before I had it down.
PodPerson@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Exact same story for me. Learned on an automatic, but had ridden a dirt bike a few times and understood the concept. First time driving a stick was when I bought my first car and then had to learn fast as I drove it home. Worked out ok.
nik9000@programming.dev 5 months ago
I told the car salesdude that I’d buy this car if he spent 15 minutes teaching me. Worked out pretty well!
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yep. Still have two stick cars. They’re not dead yet.
Railing5132@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh, these “let’s get people to reveal their password reset question” Facebook campaigns again…
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
My first car was a 1972 Toyota Corolla! I fondly remember driving my first pet, Max, on good ol’ Pine Lane, where I grew up, to go see my mother Joan Hart, who retook her maiden name after divorcing my father!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I don’t know if electric vehicles have one but other than them all cars have clutches, whether manual or automatic.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wet vs dry… Emmmmm
Honytawk@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Amazing shitpost.
People really went directly to the manual vs automatic debate without realizing it has nothing to do with that.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Flying over my head. what does it have to do with?
Honytawk@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Evey car has a clutch, including automatic. It is so the engine can keep turning without the wheels spinning.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Whatever the driving school had, I have no idea what car it was.
supermurs@kbin.earth 5 months ago
It was a first generation Ford Focus hatchback.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Since the question is ‘vehicle’: Massey-Ferguson 165. Or if you insist a car: Opel Kadett C.
zxqwas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Learnt in a ford mondeo, some early 2000s model.
Still got a manual as my daily driver.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I dont seem to get the joke no matter how much brainpower i use…
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I just put a new clutch in the vehicle I’m teaching my kid to drive.
Reygle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Learned and took my driving test in an 88 Dodge Omni 5 speed.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
I still drive one WITH a clutch. Manuals are pretty cool.
Cryan24@lemmy.world 5 months ago
88 volvo 440.
As others have said, manual transmissions are standard in Europe
zout@fedia.io 5 months ago
Volkswagen Golf type 3.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That is still the standard way here. Automatic is something we still leave to those for who a gear is too complicated.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 months ago
And EVs.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
My first two cars were manuals, and I enjoy manuals (drive an EV now so no choice there) but this post reeks of acting like doing so makes us special. It doesn’t. We just learned a different skill, and almost anyone can learn it if they chose to and especially if they enjoy it.
Aganim@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Driving stick is still the norm here. Learned it in a Suzuki Swift, which did not do honour to its name.
First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
European here, learned in a Toyota Yaris
yakko@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Yes, and in the land of automatics no less, and on a '99 Celica GT. It was mom’s car, but I drove it like it was mine.
obinice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Everyone? How else are you going to change gear?
I think a more interesting question would be:
How many people learned to drive in a car with a manual Choke?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
Lawnmowers count? lol
wieson@feddit.org 5 months ago
Not me, but I learned to drive a 1967 tractor before driving a car, and you have to manually preheat the glowplug.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 5 months ago
I’m currently learning to drive in a car without a clutch (an EV)
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Had a dirtbike with one, that counts right?
gnu@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I had an old Series era Landrover as a paddock basher when I was a kid, that had a manual choke. It also had a backup crank handle for starting the engine which I had to use occasionally as I was using starter batteries which had been retired from usage in the family cars, a gearbox with no synchro on first/second, and the foot brake didn’t work. Would recommend, I definitely had fun.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 months ago
OG Mini. So, yes, had a manual clutch. Now, 40-something years later I’m driving an automatic for the first time because they don’t make the car I wanted at the spec. I wanted in a manual.