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Stick shifts give you greater control over your car than an electric. You can push start your car to get it to turn over if your battery dies. Also, you don't have to worry about a bad software update borking your vehicle.
Yes, driving a stick shift requires a bit more expertise, but that expertise comes in handy in many situations, particularly in snow. The number of people who have no clue what their car is doing in snow is staggering, particularly when it comes to what their wheels are doing. All they know is how to press a pedal.
Driving a stick shift doesn't make me feel "manly". What it does is give me a measure of assurance the car won't do anything until I tell it to. Also, the look on people's faces when they find out I drive a stick shift is priceless.
Anyway, the sport package came with sport seats, which I love, and paddle shifters, which have got to be the most useless bit of chrome I've ever had on a car. I tried them once, just for fun, and if you aren't trying to drive like a maniac bimmer a-hole, they're less than pointless.
I agree in case of an ICE (old fashioned petrol or diesel engine). But the article is about faking a stick shift on an electric car. Which is utter nonsense, because the EV does not have the drawbacks of automatic gearshifts in petrol cars.
I only learned to drive a stick within the last 8 years or so - I'm not a whiz but I make out alright. And I can tell you that with an automatic transmission I've gotten cars 'unstuck' from snow ruts that I defy even the best shifter to escape with a stick.
You're moving an automatic shifter between 2 positions...or you're moving a manual shifter between 2 positions. There's no "impossible" about it...but like you said, you're "not a whiz"...after you drive a manual for a while, it becomes as second nature as all the other aspects of driving. Much like you don't have to think about all the little left/right steering wheel inputs...you just kinda automatically (ha) shift when you need to. You also mindlessly slip between "driving modes" too...rather than having to pick a sport/economy/towing setting. Yeah, if it was conscious mental effort, it'd be a chore...but, you get beyond it at some point.
Also, if you look at the non-casual off-road enthusiast...who are dealing with snow, ice, mud, wet rocks, slippery inclines, etc...they all lean towards manual transmissions. There are scenarios where if your hypothetical automatic suddenly decides to shift...it kinda screws you.
See...this just shows that you're unfamiliar with "heel-toe technique"...this is a standard technique for (good) manual drivers. You just have to accept that people manage this, even if you can't. It's not an indictment...you just need to get the practice in. You're pretending like forward/reverse in an automatic, is like flipping a toggle switch...which just isn't true. A manual driver can shift from forward to reverse, just as fast.
The one thing an automatic transmission really can't do is read your mind. It doesn't know you want to accelerate in a second or so in the future, or that you want there to be a little engine braking. It can't react to *intent*, only accelerator inputs. So an automatic will never be good enough for high performance driving of an ICE vehicle. But that's not a kind of driving most of us ever need to do. Automatics are good enough for any kind of utility driving and more efficient than 90% of drivers would be on a stick.
Stick shift requires driver competence, is much less complex, requires less maintenance, is less expensive to repair, and is considerably lighter than an auto, and is certainly not less efficient.
Plus the feel of being fully in control of your car.
They will take my manual MX5/Miatas gear shift from my cold dead hands, despite also having a CX5 auto, from pure driving pleasure, manual cant be beaten.
My current ICE econobox fakes the shift points on a CVT because people complained about "droning" while accelerating or some such nonsense. I'd be thrilled to turn it off, if the option was available. Similarly, while I learned to drive on a standard transmission, I have no feelings of nostalgia whatsoever for it. It was just one more thing to have to deal with while driving, and I was glad to be rid of it when I could afford a car with an automatic.
Ehh, is that true anymore? The fuel efficency argument has not been true for awhile, compared against modern 7-11 speed automatics (maybe a very experienced stick shift driver can out efficency it but most people will not) and most high performance and hypercars come with dual clutch automatics with the flappy paddles. Modern automatics are the not the slushboxes of yore.
Sure, but track driving is its own thing, separate from what we talking about here which is the 99% of vehicles and drivers that never see a track. For those cars modern automatics get better mileage, provide similar performance, can require less maintenance (the oil change interval is usually equal or longer and no clutch as a wear item).
I love manuals, but to be fair, most "racing cars" these days eg Formula 1, 2, 3, IMSA, WEC, Indy, etc. all use some sort of automated sequential gearbox. A clutch pedal and stick shift are not really necessary to race cars for several decades now. But the important part is you are having fun, so cheers!
All the racing cars are manuals, they just use paddle shifters to select which gear instead of an H pattern. It allows the drivers to not take their hands off the wheel. Hell, even Nascar is moving to paddle shifters.
Why? The idea of a pretend shift stick makes me wonder if this was designed by Fisher-Price. It's an idea almost a dumb as Herschel Walker. Even way back when the modern supercars started piping pretend air intake and exhaust sounds through the stereo system, few boomers want that sort of pretend macho. Goofy AF.
What a great idea! Fake the engine noise, fake the shifting, heck, even downgrade the electric powertrain's linear power curve to fake like it's a real gasoline-powered engine with multiple gears that goes even slower. But best of, make sure you charge an arm and a leg for all that fakery.
Even without EV's in the equation, people are not driving stick shift cars anymore though. I am a huge car guy and the selection of new cars with manual transmissions as an option are scarce. So I don't think the people who prefer ma
Alas the last manual gear shift car we had got totaled by an idiot in a pickup. With two EVs and an automatic van that might not be with us for long, I suspect manuals will go the way of crank start cars within a few years and I might not own one again as EVs take over.
Sometimes things are so simplified they get boring. EV driving will be just that. I don't currently have a standard transmission, but sometimes I put my auto in sport mode and shift it just so I can stay more involved and don't lose focus. I did the same thing in college too; my classes were so mind numbingly boring that I went back to cursive writing after printing things for years. EVs will be very dull, being able to shift may keep driving fun.
Most of the cars I have owned in my life have been manuals. My current one is an auto with paddles and manual mode and I have to say it is pretty good. Even after a lifetime of experience it shifts faster than I can. Way back I used to pretend to be Senna. Now I channel my inner Hamilton.
EV driving is not really different. It's a bit different, a lot smoother, quieter at low speeds and a common thread with EV drivers is they have no plans to go back to ICE cars - so the experience is pretty compelling.
My EV has a lot more "engine braking" than my ICE car with a CVT transmission. My Nissan Rogue just free-wheels when I let off the gas, and the 1.8L engine has so little braking that forcing a downshift just spins the engine faster with no increase in braking. My Kia Niro, OTH, slows down significantly when you let off the "gas." You can drive all over town and never touch the brake, if that's your idea of a good time.
It should be pointed out that you can do that quite easily with an automatic; even the four-speed slushbox in my twenty-five year old Ford can be downshifted easily enough. (Perhaps it's time to get out of that chair and get a driver's license.)
My Jeep Renegade and the Wife's Cherokee with their 9 speed autos will automatically downshift to brake if you are heading downhill with no gas pedal action and you accelerate over some limit. First time it happened, I thought the transmission had broken, now it's a feature I like, because the 9 speed CVT's are really easy to speed in, because they'll do speeds like 75 at less than 2000 RPM.
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