Someone rep MadCat for me, my rep reserves have dried up.
Pistol grip shifter with the clutch actuated by the trigger. Easy as pie on a cable-clutch car - you can buy them off the shelf .Hydraulic clutch is a bit harder - I suspect such a beast would involve grafting on a motorcycle clutch handle.I prefer manuals but I don't really have a choice these days anymore, ever since I lost my leg, I have found it very very difficult.
Because we bothered. Everyone else is wearing velcro (at least in America. If there are manual-elitists in the rest of the world, they're idiots)There's nobody who can't drive a manual. It's such a mind-numbingly easy task that there are only people who choose not to (or choose not to bother learning). This is why it baffles me how hard manual-elitists pat themselves on the back: it's like congratulating yourself for figuring out how to tie your shoes. :lol:
Because we bothered. Everyone else is wearing velcro (at least in America. If there are manual-elitists in the rest of the world, they're idiots)
Just to give some perspective to our European friends, as far as I know I am one of only three people in my high school of over 800 students that is able to drive manual.
To reiterate statements I and others have made in the past. Shit traffic and frequent stops are not any sort of excuse for driving an autotragic unless you're one of those fools who sit 6 inches from the car in front's bumper, matching their speed precisely at all times. Most of the time in heavy traffic, you can get away driving with only the clutch - that's one less pedal than in an automatic. On top of that, the tiny bit of extra concentration required to keep from stalling is a positive thing - it's one more layer of mental activity between you and spacing out and hitting the idiot in front, thus making everybody else's traffic even worse.I prefer two because of the stop-and-go traffic over here
I would love to learn manual, but I have no idea who to go to or where to go to for that, plus I don't have a manual car anyway. Which way on the poll should I vote then?
Focus groups thought it felt strange. This is also why most CVTs don't do the logical thing and keep the engine at a steady-state RPM (at the ideal economy point, or at the peak power point) at all times, and only control speed with the transmission - focus groups think it feels and sounds "broken".although equiraptor brought up the one thing that perplexes me about them on the Miata thread: why is there a jerk between "shifts" in the imaginary gear ratios? Dammit, that's stupid. Adding a rough jerk negates part of the point (smoothness) of having paddles (and/or a CVT) over a manual.
Focus groups thought it felt strange. This is also why most CVTs don't do the logical thing and keep the engine at a steady-state RPM (at the ideal economy point, or at the peak power point) at all times, and only control speed with the transmission - focus groups think it feels and sounds "broken".