Standard transmission or automatic transmission, and why?

Automatic. It's much easier without constantly having to clutch and shift.

Manual. If I may adlib a song, 'And we'll have fun fun fun till my daddy takes my stick shift away', Whoa!!!

I drive standard transmission. They are the most common hear, and girls can drive them too. Mmhmmm.

Where is HERE?

Living in a city with hundreds of hills
My truck is automatic. Easier to drive on hills. Definitely have had
Manual transmission and burning the clutch on the hills so prefer automatic.

I'm okay with either. I find that driving on manual transmission keeps me more alert on roads though, which I kind of like.

Where I live. ;-)

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Automatic

Automatic.  Forget that standard thing.  I don't think I have the patience for it.

I was much more of a manual transmission evangelist when I was young. Nowadays, I still prefer a manual transmission, but I don't make such a big deal about it, and I can even envision circumstances (e.g. if I lived in downtown San Francisco) where I'd opt for an automatic over a manual.

It's an odd thing, but the US/Canada vehicle fleet is something like 80%-90% automatic transmissions. The rest of the world flips that proportion, with the majority of vehicles in most countries featuring manual gearboxes. I think the three main reasons for the situation are probably:

1) Other countries tax fuel much more than the US/Canada does, so people outside North America value the fuel economy advantage of manuals more.

2) Driver training standards are much more lax in the US than elsewhere. Frankly, if a lot of American drivers were forced to shift their own gears, they wouldn't be able to handle it.

3) America was much richer than most other societies coming out of WWII, so Americans could afford the extra cost of automatic transmissions. Once they became common, opting for them became a habit.

Manual all day long.  Even though I live in a place which has more than it's fair share of hill starts.  Habit is certainly part of it, but it does make me feel more involved with what I'm doing.

Because I could trip but I want you to know that every time I think that I think I should go, I recive Strange transmission:


https://youtu.be/CWF6xACBDC8

It's true for 1 and 2 compared to here. As for 3 we are richer as an average per capita comparison to the US. The automatic transmission cars are getting more common too, but still we learn how to drive with manual transmission.

Automatic stick shift. (remember those from VW?)

Driving a stick is considered to be a "manly" thing in the States. I remember a friend once opined that "Ladies, if your boyfriend can't drive a stick shift then you have a girlfriend!"

I'm comfortable with either, manual is fine; even cut my driving teeth on a "three-on-the-tree" manual. But everything I currently own is automatic. The better half never mastered manuals and they're not exactly easy to find in the US unless specifically ordered that way. Even the "big rigs" are more commonly fitted with automatic transmissions these days. (I guess truckers are getting tired of "gear-jammin' / double-clutchin'" those 13-speed and 15-speed "Roadrangers with two-speed rear-ends.)

My one daughter did disprove my friend's statement about ladies always driving automatics though. She has never had anything but a manual, actually avoids automatics. She started out with a Chevy Cavalier with a 5-speed manual and when that was down to nothing but drivetrain (that GM chassis turns to rust pretty quickly) she bought an Audi TT Quatro, also with a 5-speed manual, wouldn't look at an automatic. I'm just wondering what her next buggy is going to be?

Auto uses more fuel than manual? Who knew.

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