re: Study: Only 18% of Americans know how to drive stick shift

The first 2 cars I owned were both manual. However that was back in the day when you could actually work on cars. It took me a long time after I bought a car with an automatic not to stomp for the clutch every time I got in it.

try driving on the left with a stick. good time.

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How is this thread 10 pages? Cliffs?

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Everyone here and their mother knows how to drive a stick shift.

The 4 vehicles I have owned:

Accord manual transmission
Pathfinder manual transmission
Xterra manual transmission
And now Wrangler manual transmission

Lots of insecurities up in this thread

When I was in college I bought a Dakota from Acadiana Dodge but I lived in BR. I wanted the hood repainted because I found some nicks in it and they said it was cool. The salesman met me at 415 and swapped me out with a loaner, a standard 5 speed Dakota. I knew a little bit about them - one of my roommates at the time had a stick Ranger. I learned on the fly over the next week, but worked downtown near government St. I never learned how to balance the clutch on hills though. When I'd catch the light next to that Chevron by the Frosttop on that hill, I'd have to just run it and hope for the best.

I drove one a few years back again for the first time in a decade.

Still got it.

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luckily the shift pattern is actually the same

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Yes.

Yea, who here even knows how to saddle a horse? Much less ride it and shoot off of it. Pussy arse kids

I wonder if it's on of those things you never forget like riding a bike? It's been about 10 years since I drove stick