Men who drive automatic are "p*****s"?? :(

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Pshh. I know plenty of people who wish they had my automatic.

I've never taken any crap for it, and I could only barely drive a manual to save my life. I've simply never had one, so I never had to get good at it.

Last edited by Blasty on 21 May 2012, 10:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Ah, you'll never understand. Here, watch some Initial D.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhZWX3FnXg[/youtube]

Loved that show. My first car was an ae86. This was back in the mid nineties, before that car gained any real recognition around here. Hell, even I didn't realize how good it was until I totaled it and bought something else. But damn it was fun. It's fairly slow, but everything just feels right, communicative steering, crisp shifter. And the handling! It's limits are fairly low, but it feels like you're steering with your mind. It's so so easy to make that car do exactly what you want it to.

Wish I had known back than that not every car feels that good. In my mind, it was just a crappy old Toyota. I just assumed that something newer would be even better. Unfortunately, faster does not equal more fun.

I guess the reason being is because they are more into racing and such with a stick you can get better acceleration etc, while with an automatic not so much and its easier to drive an automatic all you have to do is put it in drive. Stick shift requires more skill, hand and eye coordination. I prefer automatics though I drive a 1991 Infiniti M30 it only came in automatic but it goes fast enough. With the right tuning and set up you can make an automatic out perform a stick but it takes more work and you have to know someone who is good at working on transmissions. Like set the lower gears closer and the higher gears further apart for optimum acceleration and top end. Most people who insult people who drive automatics are immature and are usually the kind who run their car to the ground and end up paying high insurance in the long run and wonder why they blow their head gasket and ruin their suspension.

We all should go back to horses.

I got an 84 Supra...with the engine disassembled in my garage, currently driving my mom's Galant. Ugh. But nah, the Supras have been much better handling cars. They're not like, "dreamy" by any means, but they just feel more...analog, I guess. Compared to my mom's Taurus, the steering has much more feedback, and RWD is a bit better most of the time. I found my RWD manual Supra better in the snow than my mom's Tauruses and Galant. The manual made things much more predictable, as you'd know exactly what was going on, and you could do stuff with the clutch, and I'd much rather have minor oversteer than understeer anyday of the week, so much easier to control the oversteer. The only problem on my manual Supra was, the previous owner put like, shorter Camaro shocks in back, and the springs were always compressed a lot more, so the springs would just totally compress when you accelerated, and thus not be springs anymore. So dorifuta machine there... This is my nicer condition auto one, though. http://i.imgur.com/rk5lul.jpg

If you liked Initial D, you'd love Wangan Midnight. Wangan Midnight was better than ID in a lot of ways, as Wangan Midnight wasn't predictable like ID, and it deals more with the money and repair of cars. Also, it's about highway racing, not touge racing.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwPvvWQJFXQ[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTk-OLtGprY Game trailer.

Another movie series I liked was the old Shuto Kousoku Trial movies, they were the best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUEa7ZoLEno
They're pretty corny, all taking place in the late 80s and early 90s, but they're fun movies, and I much prefer them over the Fast and Furious kinda thing. The first one was the highest quality, actually being a theatrical release, the rest were straight to video and all featured Keichi Tsuchiya having a part in the movie telling people to take it to the track and not street race.

Yay street racing anime.

Early supras = very cool. But I'm kind of a Toyota loyalist. they rarely build sporty cars but, when they do, they build some of thebest. seventies/eighties japanese cars never really got the respect they deserve, I think. Sure, they're not terribly fast in a straight line, their capabilities are not terribly high, but they just feel right, very fun, which is far more important than any objective measure of performance, at least for someone who drives on public roads for pleasure.

When it comes to car movies/anime, cheesy fun is exactly what I'm looking for.

Now I get what you guys mean by driving. And... I think I understand =P, driving must be something you really like to do, and you can name all those cars and parts and know about transmission and everything.

All I'm looking for in a car right now is one with a lot of mileage per gallon, although living in a big city mass transport is better for me than overpriced parking space and paying for gas.

I like driving my father's SUV, it's diesel, automatic, and pretty powerful. I don't delve too much in it though, as I said I see driving as a way of transporting oneself and others, and not much more =/

Yeah, cars are kind of my special interest. The one thing I'm really passionate about. I'd never think less of someone who prefers an automatic, but it is a sign that they're not a real automotive enthusiast.

My first time to drive was in a 50's International Harvester farm pickup with a manual transmission, of course. My dad had me get in on the driver's side and my younger brother in the passenger side. He stood at the window and told me how to start it, how to shift gears, and how to accelerate. Braking wasn't important because the brakes hadn't worked in years. After explaining everything, he got in the back of the pickup and away we went.

I drove that pickup for years. No brakes, no license plates, no inspection sticker, no brake lights, no turn signals, and no windshield wipers. Also, the heater was pathetic, but that only mattered in the winter time.

That was the total extent of my driving instruction until I took Driver's Ed in high school. By then I was driving all over the place. The instructor just had me drive around while he read the newspaper.

Years ago, Outside Magazine published an interview with Edward Abbey. If I remember correctly, Abbey picked up the interviewer at the airport in an old gas-guzzling Cadillac. This surprised the interviewer considering that Edward Abbey was supposed to be some kind of environmentalist and asked Edward Abbey about it. Edward Abbey replied that the sooner we run out of oil, the sooner we can go back to horses.

I've never heard of men being disparaged for not driving a stick shift. Who said that?

The current employment trend is supposedly women in the workplace and men being the 'stay at home dad.'

This thread is funny since newer automatic-transmissions are high-tech enough that they can shift better than almost any human that's using a manual-transmission including during off-road 4WD and heavy-towing. However, stick-shifts are usually more fun to use in fast sports-cars which is about all they're good for anymore.

To meet a man who DRIVES and has a job would be so exciting.

I own a Jeep (Just Empty Every Pocket) so I have to have a job.

As for Auto Vs Standard... Standard every way, every day. Granted my Jeep is an Auto. Try finding a 2002 Grand Cherokee with a 5spd. Very few, and far between. I can live with that. But it is also well protected (skidplates, and such), and I keep a couple of cans of fluid in the back.

I've had both manual and automatic but my daily driver is an automatic 4Runner. It was bought used so being automatic came with the package.
I like the mechanical simplicity of a manual and the better control in some circumstances.
On the other hand manual can be a pain in the @ss if you have to do a lot of city stop-n-go driving.