Damn millennials.....

This probably the result of dealing with racers all the time.

 

Are you seriously trying to apply logic to fashion? This must be one of the 85-90 days.

 

I blame this on them too

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/09/05/stick-shift-manual-transmission/1131578002/

 

I'd blame it on there not really being an advantage to it anymore. Plus, growing up there was basically no one in my friends or family (most of which aren't millennials) that had one I could learn on. First time learning was when I bought an old car off Craigslist and drove it away.

Fwiw, just got a new car last year and I had a hard requirement of it to be a manual. Wife can drive it too

 

I blame cell phones, cup holders, and dual clutch transmissions

 

Funny timing. Currently looking for a fun little daily driver, and one of the requirements is that it has to be a manual. Wife is pissed because she won't be able to drive it. I said "That's kinda the point" lol .

 

I used to be die hard manual, nearly every car I’d ever owned was one, except my Jeep GC and my van, since neither were available with one. But my next car purchase will probably be a sports car, and it’ll probably be an auto. They’re just so damn good anymore.

 

All I ever owned were manuals, until my current truck, and my g6 before this. I know the new sport autos are good. Probably much better than me as a driver. For me it isn't about that (outright performance). It's about having a fun car and part of the fun for me is rowing through the gearbox.

 

Yep...

 

Yeah, but almost all have a manual mode that’s usually close enough for the few spirited drives when you want that feeling.

 

But none of them have a clutch pedal or a wiggly thing in the center console.

 

It's about the clutch too. My truck has a manual mode. A rocker button on the gear stick. I use it in the winter, in conjunction with disabling the nanny shit to slide around and make sure the tranny holds a gear and doesn't shift up/down/up/down. Pushing buttons doesn't compare to being manually in control of the whole process to me. Night and day.

 

This is the real reason. When I first moved to Los Angeles I HAD to have a 5 speed Camaro. I got it. Then I started driving it in Los Angeles traffic. It sucked ass. I got rid of it and got a Camry. Manual cars are dogshit in urban areas. I’d get one if I lived in the boondocks. Not much use for one now. My car is something that hauls things and gets me efficiently from A to B hopefully at minimal cost. I don’t give a fuck about enjoying it. Motorsickles and bicycles are for fun. My hard requirement for a car is that I easily be able to stick my 29er MTB in it with only the front wheel removed.

There’s zero advantage to a manual other than nostalgia and desire. When there’s no economic incentive shit goes away. It won’t be missed.

 

Last year I taught my daughter to drive my 300K mi impreza which is a stick/manual. She's 13 years old ,and hell bent on NOT being like a millenial!!! And YES......Im damn proud!!

 

I had a '49 Dodge Wayfarer with the Fluid Drive transmission. You could go either way after first gear. The problem was the defroster; It was just a pipe routed from the engine compartment directly to the inside of the windshield. Not good for air quality in the cabin... Damn pretty car, though.