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When I was growing up, having a car with a stick shift was a sign of poverty.....only poor people couldn't afford the $800 an automatic transmission cost. If you could afford only ONE option, it was always an automatic transmission. Most of us baby boomers still feel the same way. The last I knew, the vast majority of new Corvettes were sold with automatics. I drove a 5 speed stick shift in Capri's and BMW's for 22 years, but when I bought the Mystique, I decided that I was going back to automatics. Don't regret it one bit.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
I don't think it's laziness. What is the incentive to a soccer mom driving a car with a stick? She doesn't want to drive a stick and there is no reason for her to. We all do things that tailor to our life styles that other people could consider laziness, gluttony, or wasteful.
Driving an automatic isn't laziness, if one knows how to drive a manual. Refusing to learn to drive a manual at all is, IMO. Forcing one's spouse to buy an automatic out of said laziness should be punishable by... Oh, a sentence of life driving a little two-stroke s***box with a three speed manaul. 
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I would like to learn how to drive stick one time, but at the age of 26, I know exactly 0 people that drive a stick. How am I supposed to learn?
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i'm sure there is a ceg'er not too far away who would volunteer for the job should you really want to learn. try supplying something like beer and pizza.
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Originally posted by my csvt:
i'm sure there is a ceg'er not too far away who would volunteer for the job should you really want to learn. try supplying something like beer and pizza.
Yeeuuagh lettt tha clutcha out sloooowwwlllyy... BLOUGHAH!  Dammit, time for an SVT floor mat group buy...
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Originally posted by TJSwoboda:
Originally posted by my csvt:
i'm sure there is a ceg'er not too far away who would volunteer for the job should you really want to learn. try supplying something like beer and pizza.
Yeeuuagh lettt tha clutcha out sloooowwwlllyy... BLOUGHAH! Dammit, time for an SVT floor mat group buy...
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what?
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
What is the incentive to a soccer mom driving a car with a stick?
Less intial cost, better fuel economy, better durability (generally). Seems like a no brainer to me.
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Maybe if that's laziness, driving a car is laziness. So maybe we should all walk every where.
Actually driving everywhere IS lazy, and some people point as a large part of people being so fat in this country.
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5 choices ... 3 manufacturers. That's pretty slim pickings in my opinion, especially when you consider how options quickly rack up the pricing too.
I'm a little lost about where this thread is going.... I mean I can name many more cars...all compacts like the Focus st/svt, mazda3, srt-4, Sentras, corolla XRS, all the sport coupes... basically any car with any sport in it. American manufacturers shy away from sticks in their sport sedan offerings under 35k.
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I think the point was, that there are few and far between choices for affordable cars offering a V6 option and mtx. And that the selection is narrowing. Thats my take on it anyway....
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Originally posted by XKontour98:
I think the point was, that there are few and far between choices for affordable cars offering a V6 option and mtx. And that the selection is narrowing. Thats my take on it anyway....
That's more or less it. It's the lack of 'family sedans' with a V6 ... you know; avergae, everyday cars like the tour. I personally want a family sedan, 4 doors that the wife, and the kids and I can jump into. Something that's not going to have the wife bending me ear over ... or the kids parking into trees on the highways.
When you start going up the ladder in terms of price/speed/quality/etc then yes there are manual tranmissions, but only in relatively expensive cars.
Basically ... if I were to go out today and try to buy the same car that my Contour was 7 years ago I'm limited in choice for manual's. If I want a manual ... I have to 'downgrade' my car to something smaller and less 'family orientated', or alternatively 'upgrade' quite a low ... Audi's and so forth are not cheap.
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