Automatic or Manual Transmission?

manual if you can drive.

>manual
$1000 clutch job anywhere from 60-200k miles

>automatic
$5000 transmission rebuild after 150k miles

No point to manual if its just a daily driver

>>15438339
no point to your shitty opinions

>>15438335
Why do americans prefer automatics then?

Driving an automatic is emasculating, especially if there was a manual option.

>>15438339
Why not? That's a very baseless claim.

>>15438360
Because they are lazy and not interested in cars

>>15438360
cause it's hard shifting gears with a tub of lard in your right hand

well manuals are cheaper and if you can drive you will get better mpg too. the only auto I would consider is DCT.

This thread alreads departed from the topic and become opinion statements portrayed as facts

Trash

>>15438382
Bootyblasted autocuck

You're going to compare the answers from two different threads or what?
>>55571718

>>15438396
Tbh, i didn't know /o/ existed before someone told me at /g/. This board is more relative to my question but most answers aren't.

>>15438360
Because it's fucking impossible to find manuals here.

>>15438360
they can't get it into first gear because the shifter hits their belly

Both will last if you don't fuck it up, but manuals are less complex ergo they cost less to fix when something goes wrong.

>>15438335
eh but manuals wear out. everyone who has driven a bugeye wrx knows this.
a rebuild would make both the auto and manual more happy after 200k miles i guess.

>>15438425
This guy gets it

Automatics are ez to drive. My daily is my mother's civic (18 y/o going to uni this fall dw) and it requires nothing on my end. Literally could drive that shit asleep. But a manual car is more fun. It's something I'd like to have in my own car, a manual transmission. I've driven a standard before and it's quite difficult to get started but shifting gears isn't hard. You just have to practice and I can't practice when I don't own a manual car.

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>>15438425
This especially if it's a car you want

>>15438329
Say your automatic needs rebuilding, can you rebuild it as a manual or does the whole thing need to come out?

>>15438840
kill yourself

>>15438329
Depends on the shitbox and the transmission that is in said shitbox.

My clutch on my civic was 200 dollars. I can pick up a 4r70w from a junkyard for the same price.

Or my hombres clutch on his m6 was 3000 dollars. Or the automatic on my hombres Mercedes is 7000 dollars.

So yeah it really depends.

The debate continues from /g/

>>15438440
>can't get it into first gear
>shifter hits their belly

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>>15439265

>>15438329
Why would I rebuild the tranny on a car with 150K miles on it? I would just buy a new fucking car. Also, this is why leasing is master race

>>15439327
Literally why

>>15439392
Because racecar. No, really

Manual

Wear items aside, it'll wear out and break, but you will actually still be able to drive the car

>manual
>oh no, no second gear!
>skip second.

>auto
>oh no, no second gear!
>CRUNK CLASH CLASH CLASH BRRRRRRRRRRK

>CVT
>oh no, NO GEARS FUCK

>>15438944
>/g/
>"auto/cvt master race dated tech lol fucking luddites"
>"vi ~/src/dwm/config.h"

>>15439392
>>15439403
It's also pretty nice for city driving, where you spend a lot of time in 2-3 anyway.

wish i knew how to drive manual lol

>>15438360
Most can't shift. Nobody knows a mate with a manual shitbox to practice in for an afternoon or two, and many are reluctant to blow $300 on a Craigslist special to try it out.

>>15438360
Because after WW2 America was the only major country not fucked. So in a time when domestic automobiles were basically everyone in the world drove, they could afford the automatic models.

Look what happens when you use logic instead of shitposting.

>>15438360
so we can eat a big man in one hand, and drive with the other.

>manuals
cheapest, easiest
>old autos
expensive and complicated af
>new autos aka robotic manuals
cheap but with closed system ecu shit so not as easy

>>15441094
big mac*

>>15438360
Honest answer: manual was standard up until the 70s onward. Automatics were a luxury item and we Americans love luxury but also convenience. It's convenient to not shift gears.

Automatics got more popular. Now they are the new standard here, with somewhere between 6 and 3 percent of new cars being manual depending on your source.

That being said I never want to go back to an automatic. They feel extremely weird and oddly uncontrollable now that I'm used to a manual.

>>15441096
>complicated
>what is a two gear Powerglide

Manual is for gays who constantly want to stroke large phallic objects

>>15441193
>masturbation is gay

>>15441077
This

>>15441193
>Autofags can't stop associating everything with dicks

>>15438360
Luxury cars i nthe past had autos, stuck to it.

>>15438329
Automatic, only a manual has any chance of needing maintenance in a cars life time.

>>15438339
Is that what you tell yourself when you sit in your auto shitbox?

manual virgin here who doesn't know anyone with a manual car

If I go to buy a 200 dollar craigslist special to learn manual on should I bring someone with to drive it home for me so I can practice in familiar easy area or with no time ever driven a manual could I get one home?

>>15441512
Is this the modern definition of "lifetime", ie like 50k miles tops?

>>15442413
Just buy whatever car you want outright, a learner car is completely unnecessary.

>>15442464
well I'd love something simple small and easy like a miata but I doubt I'll be able to find one cheap for a while and I wanted to have some knowledge under my belt so I could make a more educated evaluation when I go to buy one

I would have liked an e30 or maybe an sw20 (the dicey choice) but I doubt I'll be able to find one anytime soon

Maybe I should just pick up a trash e30 or e36

>>15442413
you'll want someone with you to take it home if you're very far away, if that's an option for you. when I got my manual car, my dad drove it home for me

>>15442478
>>15442478
Just go buy a cheap econobox that still runs and learn on that nefore you blow your load early. You won't break it unless it's already damaged or you're just a shit driver.

>>15441094
for you

>>15438339
Agreed, but only if daily driver means having to suffer through stop and go

>>15438374
what is a Dual Clutch transmission?

>>15438329
I drove both, But for my daily work commute i prefer auto as im crawling most of the time.

How ever if i want to have fun ill take my motorcycle out inside.

Am I the only person on /o/ who's mom still drives manual? She's 57 for Christ sake.
97% of the cars my mom has had when I was growing up were manual.
My dad drives manual too.
So does my sister.
Me and my two brothers drive manual.
Why doesn't your family /o/?

>>15438335
>$5000 transmission rebuild after 150k miles

only in american and german cars.

>>15438329
Auto?
Hahhahahahahaha
Enjoy your no engine braking!
Cunts

>>15443307
You can engine brake an automatic you tard

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>>15443315
Please dont