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MontrΓ©al, QuΓ©bec, Canada. Early 40 years old. Yes I drive a manual transmission car.
I've always owned manual cars. I'm going to keep my car for an long as I can. I'm not to keen on cars with lots of technology in it. It's prone to too many problems.
I've only done it twice but it went surprisingly ok. I could do it if I had to. USA in my 30's
You left gender off of your list of questions. That'd be interesting. I can drive manual transmission. My first 5 cars were all manual until I got married and had to give it up "for safety". I'm from all over the US, but learned to drive in the Midwest. I'm old by internet standards.
One fun fact for y'all; There seems to be evidence that supports the claim that driving a manual transmission vehicle is actually safer for individuals with ADHD, contrary to popular belief.
US 28, can and do. only time I prefer automatic is when traffic is really bad, otherwise manual is more engaging end enjoyable imo
20s, Southern US, and yes. It's weird seeing folks who don't since most of the shitboxes we drove were
I'm from the Netherlands. I've been driving since 2009 and I've never driven an automatic car. I drive (semi) truck since 2019 and have never driven a manual truck.
35 and haven't owned/driven a standard in over a year. Yet I still frequently stomp on my own foot trying to downshift or find myself mindlessly searching for the shifter exiting turns.
Yes, Poland, 18 and I prefer (and drive) it
US, close to fifty, and I've driven stick since 1992
19, Vermont. I learned to drive stick on a big Kubota tractor at 14 lol.
Yes. As someone from the UK where near enough everyone I know knows how to drive a manual. If you learnt auto only you'd get absolutely hammered by your mates. However this will probably start to change now hybrid/electrics are mostly auto or single gear
US, 47, and nope.
37, US, and yes. I prefer manual for keeping my attention actively on the car and driving.
Yes, I have never owned anything else. I really struggle to drive auto/CVT, honestly, it's so confusing for me.
Early 40s. Murica.
US, 21, and can kinda drive a manual.
I'll stall out a few times cause I don't have practice but I'll be able to get where I need to go
43, US - can and do drive a manual.
29 southern US. I've been daily driving since 2014. People get obsessed or weird about it. There's valid reasons to drive automatic or manual, just don't go huffing and puffing one is better than the other
Not well, but I got some practice with an old beetle back when I was learning. I've kept the practice of keeping lefty on the dead pedal because of it.
I'm in Mexico at the moment and my first car was manual transmission. I didn't know how to drive manual when I bought it, so I just learned on the fly.
Yes. I bought a manual car a few years ago having never driven one before. I taught myself how to drive it in my driveway and with the help of YouTube videos. I really enjoy it and hope that even in the future when EVs are the final nail in the coffin for manuals that I still have at least a "fun" car with a manual. I'm in the US and a millennial.
I'm in my early 40s in the US. I learned to drive a manual when I got my license ~25 years ago but haven't driven one since that day. I rode a motorcycle for a few years as well, so I'm pretty sure I could manage if I absolutely had to.
Yeah, I'm 24, from Finland. Most people have manuals here.
When I got married, my wife moved up to live with me in Canada in the dead of winter. Our only car was a manual rust bucket my brother gifted us with. For some reason, it was always freezing cold in that car. I eventually squeezed an old pizza box in front of the rad and it helped retain a modicum of heat. But man what a junker...
At any rate, we'd get off work and it would of course already be dark and I'd take her to a parking lot to teach her stick. She'd be trying to do donuts in the snow while the car was lurching around or spinning the tires. She just kept getting angrier and it didn't help when I'd yell "you're gonna stall! give it more gas!" Our marriage was seriously tested at that point but by some miracle we're still together?
Yes, NYS, learned in PA as a teen and then got i proficient in college with my used wrangler. Taught my wife after college when we had to share a vehicle. Now late 30s and one of our two cars is manual, but it's 12 years old and it is looking likely that the replacement will sadly be an automatic. Needs change!
Yes, US, early 20s, drove one until recently when I had to get a new car.
Yeah. US midwest, 46, learned in an '86 Toyota 4Runner nicknamed The Blue Beast. It was my only vehicle for a number of years.
Enough to get a drunk friends car home in one piece.
See username. USA.
Never learned. I can ride a motorcycle so I'm comfortable with a clutch. So the learning curve probably isn't too steep. But probably never will, if I'm honest.
I just didn't have the need for driving licence. So no, automatic or electric or manual.
With good public transport and cost of car ownership it didnt make sense. But now I will probably do it just in case.
No. From rural Oregon, early 20's. My dad has been meaning to teach me with our old Ford Focus, but it hasn't happened yet. :(
Mid 30s, US. First car was a manual, but I have an automatic now. I do miss it, but I probably drive much safer now that it's less fun. Even though it was just a beat up old passat I always felt like I was in forza driving the manual
US (Midwest), 40, maybe? I know how to but haven't driven one since I was probably 19.
Iβm a boomer, of course I can, haha.
California. 62. Been driving a manual for over 40 years. Most recently a six-speed.
I can but my license is for automatic only, which I'm regretting because automatic cars are more expensive to buy and maintain than manuals.