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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I  am in my third season of teaching how to drive manuals. I work with Stick shift Driving Academy in my region. I have a very high success rate and take pride in it. I own a 5speed, 5cylinder station wagon, a powerful car. We cannot take it on public highways due to insurance restrictions.  Where I teach, there is a decent hill in the middle of the parking lot so trainees get to practice incline starts in both forward and reverse.The low gear maneuvers I teach are the hardest to do. That includes stop and go traffic, slow, creeping along traffic, and parallel parking. Higher speeds do not require as much finite attention. Manuals are better for several reasons: 
1.The most expensive repair on a car is the transmission.the driver of a manual IS the transmission so drive repairs are generally less expensive. 
2. Because the driver of a manual has more control over the drive/ spin of the wheels, they can get through snow and ice covered roads more easily and safely.
3.Also because of the control over revs, manuals generally use less fuel.
4.Here is my favorite advantage of driving manuals:For the most part of driving a manual, both feet and usually both hands are busy driving the vehicle, which means the driver cannot be eating, or texting, or doing other things which means the driver needs to be pretty much "hands free" to drive and does so with a lot fewer unnecessary distractions. 
-michael

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None of your reasons for driving a manual are true anymore or never been true, like you cannot eat while driving. Of course, you can, you only need both hands 1% of the time.  The only real reason for driving a manual is you inherited a 30 year old civic from your grandpa and instead of junking it decided to take it to the track[/quote]

The real reason for driving a manual is because you enjoy the act of driving as much, or more, than the mere utility of getting to the destination.  [/quote]

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