Do you drive a manual or automatic car?
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Do you drive a manual or automatic car?
What sort of car do you drive? What are your preferences?
Me personally I get on better with a manual car - but then I learnt on it and have no clue how to drive a automatic car - never had to drive one...
How has everybody else got on????
Me personally I get on better with a manual car - but then I learnt on it and have no clue how to drive a automatic car - never had to drive one...
How has everybody else got on????
I drive both of my parent's cars which are manual's,
as my last car got written off by the insurance company after a grandad hit it, while it was parked on the other side of the road! so ended up spending my birthday on the phone to them!
I never had any problems learning in a manual car, as I learned changing gears, etc. on an arcade game, and asking my mother how you do the accelerator and clutch.
I found it hard driving an automatic though! your left foot is redundant!! and found that it felt really really weird!
as my last car got written off by the insurance company after a grandad hit it, while it was parked on the other side of the road! so ended up spending my birthday on the phone to them!
I never had any problems learning in a manual car, as I learned changing gears, etc. on an arcade game, and asking my mother how you do the accelerator and clutch.
I found it hard driving an automatic though! your left foot is redundant!! and found that it felt really really weird!
Automatic all the way baby!!!!!!!
I drive a VW Lupo and a Nissan Micra - they're both automatics.
When I first started in to learn to drive, I learnt with a manual - and it was horrible- I got all muddled and confused. BUT - then I switched to automatic.....THANK G-D............
Peace
I drive a VW Lupo and a Nissan Micra - they're both automatics.
When I first started in to learn to drive, I learnt with a manual - and it was horrible- I got all muddled and confused. BUT - then I switched to automatic.....THANK G-D............
Peace
KLM - No NOT the airline
I've always driven manual cars, clutch control was a real challenge at the start but I got to have a go on my father's tractors, which helped me a lot, that and riding an old trials bike around the farm.
Autos are a much better bet if you find a clutch difficult, but if you've already learnt to drive a manual, going over to auto is a real challenge, I drove a V6 automatic Rover 75 at a car club meet, around a car park, and I kept hitting the brake thinking it was a clutch!
Autos are a much better bet if you find a clutch difficult, but if you've already learnt to drive a manual, going over to auto is a real challenge, I drove a V6 automatic Rover 75 at a car club meet, around a car park, and I kept hitting the brake thinking it was a clutch!
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Re: Do you drive a manual or automatic car?
I drive an automatic, I tryed to learn to drive a manual transmition car once,...
my brothers really good at it, hes even taught plenty of others,...
when I tryed I blew the transmition on my first time out, it had to be completely replaced, I think I'm done,
I'll stick to an automatic,
my brothers really good at it, hes even taught plenty of others,...
when I tryed I blew the transmition on my first time out, it had to be completely replaced, I think I'm done,
I'll stick to an automatic,
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Manual car hated it at first but got used to it and it ain't that bad
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I passed in a manual however never felt very confident with the starting and stopping. Following a break from driving I've now bought an automatic to ease getting back into it. May or may not move back to a manual in the future but automatic is doing it for me at present.
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Hey I started to learn in a manual and actually found it ok, I then had to stop as I had to move away when I retuned home I started learning in an automatic, and the difference was huge, It took me a year exactly yo learn and pass my test in an automaic, I was learning in a manual for over a year and a half and wasnt put in for one test. I think ill stick to automatic until I have more confidence in me driving.
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I'm only licensed to drive an automatic - the manual was too much for me.