galacticmonkey
5,000+ posts
Wants a button like that.
Its weird driving different cars and seeing how different the clutches are.
For the OP who still needs to learn, if you are driving one car and having a hard time, possibly try a different car. For instance the Porsche 911 and my friends CTS-V were pretty tricky to drive. The clutches were very sensitive, and if you let it out a hair too far or a hair too fast, the car stalled. That girls Celica GTS was the same. But my Mustang (was just a V6) was super easy to drive, and when driving it easily, I saw great gas mileage. Cruising around town I would just put it in 5th gear and let it ride around 1300 RPM. That RPM gave me around 48-50mph, so it was perfect for most roads with a 45mph speed limit. My other friends Evo was pretty easy as was a GTO.
Then other cars like my friends old CRX might as well have been an automatic. Bone stock engine, but you just let the clutch out as fast as you wanted with any amount of gas and the car just took off. That car had around 275k on the stock clutch, so that probably explains it. I still have never driven a truck with a manual. I think it would be fun to have that super long shifter coming out of the floor and have that long throw to put it in gear.
Manual is cool, but after a while it loses its fun since you dont even think about it, its just a thing you automatically do, and the only time you do think about it is when you are trying to do something else like mess with your radio, get something out of your pocket, use your phone, swap CDs, eat something, hold a drink, etc. It is nice to get better gas mileage and have cheaper work done on your transmission, though.
Just curious, but has anyone here ever driven an old car where the shifter is on the steering column? Is it as much of a pain as it seems? I prefer my truck (Avalanche) and most other SUVs and trucks having the shifter on the column, but its automatic, so it never gets touched. One of those old 3 on the tree seems like a total PITA.
For the OP who still needs to learn, if you are driving one car and having a hard time, possibly try a different car. For instance the Porsche 911 and my friends CTS-V were pretty tricky to drive. The clutches were very sensitive, and if you let it out a hair too far or a hair too fast, the car stalled. That girls Celica GTS was the same. But my Mustang (was just a V6) was super easy to drive, and when driving it easily, I saw great gas mileage. Cruising around town I would just put it in 5th gear and let it ride around 1300 RPM. That RPM gave me around 48-50mph, so it was perfect for most roads with a 45mph speed limit. My other friends Evo was pretty easy as was a GTO.
Then other cars like my friends old CRX might as well have been an automatic. Bone stock engine, but you just let the clutch out as fast as you wanted with any amount of gas and the car just took off. That car had around 275k on the stock clutch, so that probably explains it. I still have never driven a truck with a manual. I think it would be fun to have that super long shifter coming out of the floor and have that long throw to put it in gear.
Manual is cool, but after a while it loses its fun since you dont even think about it, its just a thing you automatically do, and the only time you do think about it is when you are trying to do something else like mess with your radio, get something out of your pocket, use your phone, swap CDs, eat something, hold a drink, etc. It is nice to get better gas mileage and have cheaper work done on your transmission, though.
Just curious, but has anyone here ever driven an old car where the shifter is on the steering column? Is it as much of a pain as it seems? I prefer my truck (Avalanche) and most other SUVs and trucks having the shifter on the column, but its automatic, so it never gets touched. One of those old 3 on the tree seems like a total PITA.
