It is amazing how many people cant drive a stick. I had a group share beach house with a long driveway. We had rule leave keys in bowl so you don't block people in and I had to move my car a lot as people did not drive a stick.

And the few who could barely knew or still did not know. My car for instance was a R,1,2,3 shift.
So up to the left was reverse and most people would thing that is first. Well not every car has same pattern.

My college BF immediately wrecked his new "sporty" manual transmission car. To be fair, he probably would have wrecked any new car eventually.

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Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

“Real men”?

Sexist POS.

My oldest daughter drives one and I’m teaching my younger one now. It is a life skill that every driver should have.

It is a cool skill but certainly not a life skill and may go extinct in the next 20 years

Just here to say honda civic, low power, but still fun and cheap-ish to maintain.

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Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

So clueless, anyone outside the United States who drives knows how to drive manual.

I'm a female and I learned how to drive manual when I was 15.

This trend in Europe is very rapidly changing. People used to drive stick due to high fuel costs and manual was more fuel efficient. Now automatics are on par or sometimes slightly better. We have family in Europe and when we visited last week, none of the taxi/rideshare drivers were driving stick any more, and neither were our relatives. Big change from 10 years ago!

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Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

“Real men”?

Sexist POS.

My oldest daughter drives one and I’m teaching my younger one now. It is a life skill that every driver should have.

Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

“Real men”?

Sexist POS.

Anonymous wrote:Sure. But prepare to replace the clutch in a year. Part of learning!

No, not unless you have a shtty car.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

So clueless, anyone outside the United States who drives knows how to drive manual.

I'm a female and I learned how to drive manual when I was 15.

Which country?

I'm from the UK and started to drive at 17, in a manual. I didn't drive an automatic until I was about 23.

Anonymous wrote:My sister made her kid drive a manual bc it’s much harder to text while driving one.

Harder but not impossible.

Another female who learned to drive stick, along with my brother and sister. We bought an old used Mazda and taught our daughter and son to drive it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

So clueless, anyone outside the United States who drives knows how to drive manual.

I'm a female and I learned how to drive manual when I was 15.

Which country?

Not PP but I’m also a woman who learned to drive on a manual when I was 15, right here in DC. And so did both of my sisters.

That is very unusual

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

So clueless, anyone outside the United States who drives knows how to drive manual.

I'm a female and I learned how to drive manual when I was 15.

Which country?

Not PP but I’m also a woman who learned to drive on a manual when I was 15, right here in DC. And so did both of my sisters.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

So clueless, anyone outside the United States who drives knows how to drive manual.

I'm a female and I learned how to drive manual when I was 15.

Which country?

Anonymous wrote:Real men know how to drive manuals. My 16 yr old nephew drives one and I wonder if they are trending somewhere in social media land.
Older models - Mazda and Hondas in my family.

So clueless, anyone outside the United States who drives knows how to drive manual.

I'm a female and I learned how to drive manual when I was 15.