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soupbone sal posted:Why would my friend be driving around my drugged up girlfriend in the first place?? she was at my place and her car was parked in a no overnight parking area a mile or two away it was okay; I exaggerate really. The tranny was fine. Just a pain in the butt if you need someone to help you out and no one around can drive a manual right. 
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look at this grandpa op that still owns a car smh whats next? riding to work on a horse?
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Moridin920 posted:she was at my place and her car was parked in a no overnight parking area a mile or two away Congrats on the sugar mama.
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Nov 17, 2016 21:53
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we split up years ago and her dad was just a BMW mechanic nothing super fancy. wasn't like a brand new M3 or anything.
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Nov 17, 2016 21:54
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bone app the teeth posted:look at me i lack basic adult skills explain how driving a manual transmission improves your life as an adult, without reasons like "my car is faster" and "gas mileage"
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Nov 17, 2016 21:54
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it's fun and lets you feel better than idiots who don't know how to do it
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Nov 17, 2016 21:56
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bradzilla posted:explain how driving a manual transmission improves your life as an adult, without reasons like "my car is faster" and "gas mileage" i won't fail in the scenario of "i need you to drive this manual transmission vehicle"
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Nov 17, 2016 21:56
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Driving manual is fun. Why do you hate fun?
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Nov 17, 2016 22:02
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Counterpoint: getting a beej while driving is more fun and manuals make that a problem. RIP road head 
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Nov 17, 2016 22:05
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bag em and tag em posted:Counterpoint: getting a beej while driving is more fun and manuals make that a problem. RIP road head Have the person gobble the stick and shift with their head, problem solved I don't know why that isn't a mad max deleted scene
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Nov 17, 2016 22:10
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Jerry Mumphrey posted:i ride a horse I save the horses and ride cowboys.
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Nov 17, 2016 22:10
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unpacked robinhood posted:Have the person gobble the stick and shift with their head, problem solved Or just park the car.
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Nov 17, 2016 22:12
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:My CVT gets 40mpg. I get 50 mpg. And have 550 horsepower.
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Nov 17, 2016 22:13
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Gay Weed Dad posted:OP will car shift the instant you tell it when in 'manual' mode? I've only driven a few cars with 'manual' mode but each one seemed to only take the +/- as a suggestion rather than an immediate command. thats cause the car's computer doesn't want the idiot that engaged the fake manual mode to stall the car shifting into 4th at 5mph or wreck the car putting it in 1st going 100 and instantly losing so much speed they get rear ended or whatever. i'm not even sure an automatic transmission can take the stress of engine breaking by down shifting i don't know poo poo about cars except how much fun stick is.
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Nov 17, 2016 22:20
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the tiptronic stuff shifts as soon as you tell it to (and faster than you could do it manually), the only time it won't is when it would result in things like Real hurthing! mentioned.Real hurthling! posted:i'm not even sure an automatic transmission can take the stress of engine breaking by down shifting i don't know poo poo about cars except how much fun stick is. you can do it but yeah it can gently caress your transmission up but you CAN
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Nov 17, 2016 22:28
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they had to special order my manual transmission so i didn't save any money over an automatic it's kind of fun i guess, sometimes i miss an automatic car though. by the time i get a new car it will probably be self driving and i won't have to worry about any of this nonsense
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Nov 17, 2016 22:34
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how else will i fill the vehicle with a burning odor if not by riding the clutch trying to balance my car on a 40 degree incline without using the handbrake like a goddamn loser idiot
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Nov 17, 2016 22:37
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Manual trannies are fun in high-revving sporty vehicles, a pita otherwise. I spent a couple years driving a 13-speed semitruck across North America and that's all the shifting I ever want to do ever again. Unless it's a Miata or Mazda rotary or something.
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Nov 17, 2016 22:56
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Gay Weed Dad posted:OP will car shift the instant you tell it when in 'manual' mode? I've only driven a few cars with 'manual' mode but each one seemed to only take the +/- as a suggestion rather than an immediate command. Yes. There really is no advantage to a manual transmission anymore, including fuel economy, vs a modern automatic transmission in a non poo poo heap model car
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Nov 17, 2016 23:34
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I used to drive a shitheap manual truck around. It was a chick-magnet in its own way. "Ohh a manual! Can you teach meeeee?"
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Nov 17, 2016 23:43
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what happens if you put your foot down in an automatic ,does it drop gears so you zoom off past the idiot fucker in front of you
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Nov 17, 2016 23:59
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XMNN posted:what happens if you put your foot down in an automatic ,does it drop gears so you zoom off past the idiot fucker in front of you depends on the car! drove a cruze that would downshift after a few seconds of doing nothing and drove an malibu that never downshifted and also happened to be the biggest piece of poo poo I've ever driven. drove an altima that worked p much as you described/would expect anyway gently caress malibus they are poo poo. e: malibu not impala Blue Train fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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Nov 18, 2016 00:03
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XMNN posted:what happens if you put your foot down in an automatic ,does it drop gears so you zoom off past the idiot fucker in front of you MY BMW has a little button behind the gas pedal so when you floor it it makes the car shift down a few gears and blasts forwards 
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Nov 18, 2016 00:05
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90% of car show visiting public: "Oh look a 19xx Sports Car!" *leans towards open window, spilling fries on car* "Phh, it's an auto dude."
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Nov 18, 2016 00:08
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Stick is for manly men. This is why a part of me was sad when I saw that Mel Gibsons car in the first Mad Max was an automatic. 
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Nov 18, 2016 00:08
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I drive a 2010 Malibu with an automatic transmission. It's a great car and it seats five. I get about 35 mpg freeway. I can listen to my iPhone through the auxiliary input. It has a remote start which was standard on all 2010 Malibus. My Malibu is silver and has a few scratches because I bought it from a 90 year old woman, but it drives great. It has less than 7,000 miles on it.
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Nov 18, 2016 00:15
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XMNN posted:what happens if you put your foot down in an automatic ,does it drop gears so you zoom off past the idiot fucker in front of you A lot of the fancier cars that you'd actually want to do this in have a couple modes that switch the ECU tuning up, yeah. Flip it to "gently caress my gas mileage" mode and have at it.
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Nov 18, 2016 00:25
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My step daughter turned 17 and wanted a car, and picked out a convertible VW cabrio. It was a few thousand so I just paid cash for it. She did not know how to drive stick so I showed her and in a few hours she got the hang of it. She said it was like, not a big deal at all. Now I don't need to give her rides anymore, and she can drive a stick in case she ever needs to. I have borrowed it a couple times and would say it is more "fun" to drive than my car, but a little convertible is going to be more fun than a huge sedan no matter what transmission it has.
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Nov 18, 2016 00:27
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Do EV's even have a transmission?
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Nov 18, 2016 00:31
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Three-Phase posted:Do EV's even have a transmission? Yeah you can order a Tesla with a six-speed
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Nov 18, 2016 00:40
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bag em and tag em posted:Counterpoint: getting a beej while driving is more fun and manuals make that a problem. Not while she's driving. 
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Nov 18, 2016 00:43
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Everything's all weird now. Back when I was a teenager in the mid-2000s, you got poo poo talked for driving an automatic, but nowadays you gotta put up with a bunch of
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Nov 18, 2016 00:45
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People who never learned how to drive a stick are like adults who never learned how to swim. Now that you're an adult it's too weird to ask somebody to show you how.
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Nov 18, 2016 01:27
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:My CVT gets 40mpg. That's almost 1000 km/dkl !!! 
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Nov 18, 2016 01:32
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Are you one of those people who thinks that competitive motorsports aren't a real sport and that you could do it too?
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Nov 18, 2016 01:33
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I'm sorry you can't drive a proper car op.
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Nov 18, 2016 01:35
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I drive an automatic right now but I miss driving a stick. My next car is definitely going to be a manual.
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Nov 18, 2016 01:35
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I was driving stick shift before I was tall enough to reach the pedals. The advantage with manual is shifting leaves neutral open a lot more and allows you to move into gear of your choice. There's a lot you can't do with an electric shifter.
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Nov 18, 2016 01:37
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It's handy to be able to kickstart your car. Lot harder to do that with an automatic (and impossible in some cases.)
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Once you become an adult OP and learn how to drive a stick, you can then become a man and learn how to double clutch, and after you learn how to double clutch you can become a God like me and learn how to float gears.
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