Can you drive a car with a standard (non-automatic) transmission
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I have started learning driving in a manual car but would prefer an automatic.
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Technically I can, I took a bunch of drivers ed classes when I was back in Portugal, but never did the final exam due to college then, after that it was my health. All cars there are stick shift.
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Absolutely. Do it every day. Find myself trying to shift anytime I slip into my automatic.
I call the ModernDay AntiTheft System. The MDATS.
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That movie scared me to death as a kid! I still wound up with a CDL in my pocket, though!!!
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I’ve always had manual transmission cars.
I started with a used '72 VW Super Beetle and for the last 19 years a '06 VW Rabbit.
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My first vehicle was 5 speed SUV. Then, I had manuals in a truck and car in subsequent decade and half after that. Unfortunately, the last decade has been automatics. I imagine muscle memory is still there just like how my kids learn my muscle memory at N64 Mario Kart meant I am untouchable unless they team up.
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Manual transmissions are the best for winter driving.
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Never had the money in my life to have a car at all so, no.
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Me driving standard
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Did we talk about this awhile back?
It is a good skill to have.
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Woot is in the midst of early onset Alzheimer’s. We usually just humour Woot. It’s easier on all of us. 
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I have never owned any other kind of car and never want to.
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I am an anacronism…
I am an IT professional, my 2006 Corvette has a 6spd manual, my watch is a Rolex Explorer II and my pen is a fountian. I like traditional things to keep me balanced.
Besides, most Americans under 35 can’t drive a manual. My wife and I went to a Marriott in San Diego and of all the valet staff, only 2 could drive a stick!!!
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All four of us kids learned on this. If you can drive this, you can drive anything. 
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I haven’t driven a manual, and I don’t want to. If I had to drive one, I think I could figure it out pretty quick.
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Oui.
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Oh, that poor clutch! Those poor gears!
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First car in drivers training was a 72 VW Super Beetle. Had been driving a 60 Corvair stick. I currently drive an 08 Mini Cooper S with 6 speed manual. Driving the streets of San Francisco & Seattle is fun in a stick. In the Utah Army National Guard my vehicle was a deuce and a half. A blast to drive in the mountain snows! 
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