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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
I don't see the point in owning a manual unless (a) it's a sports car or (b) you do lots of towing/hauling. Unless you're stuck with some archaic 4 speed automatic the difference in mileage will be negligible, & with newer vehicles CVTs get better mileage.
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A) Haha, you like speedy sports cars? Only overprivileged people and rednecks enjoy those.
B) I would think that a person driving in a snowy place would appreciate a manual transmission just to haul your own ass around.
I learned to drive on an automatic but quickly converted. I had a VW Golf front wheel drive manual (1989 model) that was able to plow through over a foot of snow without any shoveling when I lived above 9000 feet. It was awesome b/c snow-shoveling sucks. I haven't owned an automatic since then. Driving in crazy weather conditions is when the control factor matters. Spinning tires is idiotic when done on purpose, let alone innocently trying to drive up a low-grade hill. Embarrassing.
However, driving in gridlock-style highway traffic in a manual transmission sucks incredibly. After a couple years of that, you learn to hate manual transmissions, especially when you destroy your clutch and have to replace it. Because then you feel stupid for paying for a new clutch just for the pain of driving through a city commute that you hate in the first place.
My next car will definitely have an automatic transmission if I have to drive through miles and miles of city gridlock (which I am very hopeful not to need to do).