Do any car rental places offer manual transmission anymore?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We recently taught DC to drive stick (on our own car). It's going to take more than a few days for your kid to really learn to drive stick and if they're not driving it regularly I'm not sure that new-found skills based on a few days' practice will last anyway. I don't think the rental idea (even if you could find one) is workable. You need longer term access to a manual car and that's a tough sell for even a good friend or relative. I would not lend our car out for that purpose. But good luck.

This is what I was thinking. I own a stick shift car and have driven only manuals for nearly 30 years and sorry OP but a couple of days isn't going to be a enough for your child anyhow.

It's possible. My sister learned to drive manual on my car after I left it with her for a week. She already knew how to drive though. Is your goal to teach your kid to drive on manual transmission? That will be harder. But if they have the basics of driving down, I don't know that it will take very long for them to learn how to drive a stick.

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Of course she can learn stick in a few days. I grew up driving my parents' automatics, but a friend taught me how to drive her stick shift car in just a couple of days. If you already know how to drive, it doesn't take that long to learn stick. Some of you are really overreacting.

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Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

Wow, you're utterly charming. I'm the OP. My daughter is 20 and has been driving for years. She is going to be an au pair in Europe next summer, where the host family will give her a car of her "own" to use the whole time. The car is stick shift - as are most cars in Europe. We want to be sure she knows how to drive it before she leaves.

As for dumb... know thyself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

Why should people learn to tell time on a real watch? Start a fire in the woods? Create art without using AI? Shave with a straight razor? Get off my damn lawn.

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Anonymous wrote:Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

What an ignorant post. There are some car enthusiasts that enjoy driving manual transmissions and are actually willing to pay more to drive one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

Why should people learn to tell time on a real watch? Start a fire in the woods? Create art without using AI? Shave with a straight razor? Get off my damn lawn.

I don’t do any of those things. I can’t say my life is emptier for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

You might be the stupidest person in this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

Wow, you're utterly charming. I'm the OP. My daughter is 20 and has been driving for years. She is going to be an au pair in Europe next summer, where the host family will give her a car of her "own" to use the whole time. The car is stick shift - as are most cars in Europe. We want to be sure she knows how to drive it before she leaves.

As for dumb... know thyself.

Why are you sending your 20yo daughter to Europe to be an au pair? Did she drop out of college?

20 yr olds come to America all the time to be au pairs. It’s okay for them to come here but not for our young citizens to go abroad and be an au pair?

Typically European au pairs are from lower SES, and don’t have many options for college. It’s unusual for a young American woman to go to Europe to be an au pair unless they had no other options, which is really hard to wrap my mind around. It’s a valid question.

I guess if you have to send your child to Europe to be a live in nanny it makes sense to know how to drive a stick, since all she’ll ever have is crappy base model cars.

To each their own. I’m happy to say I don’t have a clue how to drive one, and my kids won’t either. Being able to drive a stick shift isn’t something worth bragging about unless you’re a trumper.

I admit it isn't bragworthy but do you think all the Mini drivers are Trumpers? Does that ring true to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

You know the Lotus starts at $100K. And so do Porsche 911s. Aston Martins are in the $100k too. But sure, only poor people drive manual shift cars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rental companies generally don't rent manual transmissions and if they did, they don't rent for learning purposes.

And they would know they were renting for learning purposes, how exactly?

They wouldn't, not necessarily. And this is one reason car rental places tend not to rent manual, even if people want it. They understand what people do.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why? Such a dumb idea. What possible use will it be for her to know this? Are you also teaching her how to use a rotary dial phone?

I laugh at people who boast they can “drive a stick”! Then I feel sorry for them because they’re clearly so poor they can’t get a proper car made in the last decade or three.

So dumb.

Wow, you're utterly charming. I'm the OP. My daughter is 20 and has been driving for years. She is going to be an au pair in Europe next summer, where the host family will give her a car of her "own" to use the whole time. The car is stick shift - as are most cars in Europe. We want to be sure she knows how to drive it before she leaves.

As for dumb... know thyself.

Why are you sending your 20yo daughter to Europe to be an au pair? Did she drop out of college?

No. It’s a summer internship. She’s planning on becoming a SAHM after college, so she wants experience raising kids.

She doesn’t want a life of her own? Are you religious or something?

WTF? I'm the OP with the daughter who is going to be a summer au pair. I have no idea why the bolded PP was answering for me. At any rate, what stupid questions - no, she didn't drop out of college. She's going to spend her summer in Europe - as many college students do. I can't believe the trolls on this thread who clearly have nothing better to do with themselves.