Save the Manuals...
Save the Manuals... YouTube- Save the Manuals!
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...car_and_driver
also, join because no one with 3 pedals has ever said: "the car accelerated uncontrollably and i couldnt stop it"
Like me, you may have noticed an alarming paucity of vehicles offering fully manual transmissions. Even sports-car stalwart Ferrari, of gated-shifter fame, isn’t providing a three-pedal option on the new 458 Italia. Equally distressing, I read in the Washington Post that our nation’s hard-texting youth have pronounced driving seriously lame, with only about 30 percent of 16-year-olds having acquired driving licenses as of 2008. I can’t help but think these things are related.
If folks learned to operate the entire car, not just the steering wheel and occasionally the brakes, I’d bet they’d like driving better. If they knew the sense of control imparted by that third pedal, I’d bet they would strive for its mastery. If they knew the excitement that accompanied a perfectly timed heel-toe downshift, I can guarantee they’d be hooked.
You know what we need? We need a crusade. We need to save the manuals! Not only are manual transmissions often more fuel-efficient than their two-pedal counterparts, you also can’t text while operating one. So let’s lobby carmakers to produce more of these things because they’re safer and more frugal, and let’s not tell them that they’re way more fun. Let’s train our offspring in the ancient ways of the stick shift. Let all of us knights of the clutch pedal drive our manual-equipped cars to Washington and pop ’em in front of Barry O’s house.
Won’t you join the cause? —Eddie Alterman
If folks learned to operate the entire car, not just the steering wheel and occasionally the brakes, I’d bet they’d like driving better. If they knew the sense of control imparted by that third pedal, I’d bet they would strive for its mastery. If they knew the excitement that accompanied a perfectly timed heel-toe downshift, I can guarantee they’d be hooked.
You know what we need? We need a crusade. We need to save the manuals! Not only are manual transmissions often more fuel-efficient than their two-pedal counterparts, you also can’t text while operating one. So let’s lobby carmakers to produce more of these things because they’re safer and more frugal, and let’s not tell them that they’re way more fun. Let’s train our offspring in the ancient ways of the stick shift. Let all of us knights of the clutch pedal drive our manual-equipped cars to Washington and pop ’em in front of Barry O’s house.
Won’t you join the cause? —Eddie Alterman
also, join because no one with 3 pedals has ever said: "the car accelerated uncontrollably and i couldnt stop it"
while i do respect the automatic clutch cars or whatever the hell you want to call them with the paddle shifters on the steering wheel, I do think its pretty lame. I like driving my car not pointing it....a paddle shift is one step below an automatic in my opinion.
I think the nations youth think getting a job so they can afford a car is seriously lame, more so than driving. Its hard to afford stuff when you're so goddamn lazy you can't even get off facebook and go get a job, so they don't have cars. I see this with all the kids in my family.
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I think the nations youth think getting a job so they can afford a car is seriously lame, more so than driving. Its hard to afford stuff when you're so goddamn lazy you can't even get off facebook and go get a job, so they don't have cars. I see this with all the kids in my family.
And i did, I had saved up 7k buy the time i was 16 and bought a 1993 mitsu 3k VR4. RICER, i know, lol and it was a 5 SPD. lol,
i do agree about manual transmissions. But i bought my goat (a4) for the track and going fast in a straight line.
i have the VW which is a 5spd for daily driving.
sorry, end of rant
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amen!!!! I remember when i turned 13, and in indiana at the time, you could work. I couldnt wait, so i could have the car i wanted when i turned 16.
And i did, I had saved up 7k buy the time i was 16 and bought a 1993 mitsu 3k VR4. RICER, i know, lol and it was a 5 SPD. lol,
i do agree about manual transmissions. But i bought my goat (a4) for the track and going fast in a straight line.
i have the VW which is a 5spd for daily driving.
sorry, end of rant
And i did, I had saved up 7k buy the time i was 16 and bought a 1993 mitsu 3k VR4. RICER, i know, lol and it was a 5 SPD. lol,
i do agree about manual transmissions. But i bought my goat (a4) for the track and going fast in a straight line.
i have the VW which is a 5spd for daily driving.
sorry, end of rant
I think the nations youth think getting a job so they can afford a car is seriously lame, more so than driving. Its hard to afford stuff when you're so goddamn lazy you can't even get off facebook and go get a job, so they don't have cars. I see this with all the kids in my family.
This opinion is pretty lame considering I bought my first F-body when i was 15 from FL and brought it up north where i live and most of my friends worked hard and bought all there own cars and we cruised and went to shows all the time... Just because the youth in your family and there friends do it, don't think everyone is like that...
Oh by the way that video was great, I was waiting for him to ask for monthly donations like all those commercials on tv.
