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Originally Posted by SYT_Shadow
My children will have the choice of buying their own car or learning to drive stick
I know in the US more people are Mensa members than stick-drivers but if my 88 year old grandmother can drive a stick, they can learn. Or pay for their own car.
Of course this assumes that manual used cars even exist when my kids can drive
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Amen.
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Originally Posted by SYT_Shadow
I say a manual car and make it a car not a truck/suv/crossover
A manual keeps people from being stupid. You can't drive it when intoxicated. Your jackass friends can't drive it either because they don't know how to. You can't eat pizza or do your makeup while driving a stick shift either
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The manual is safer the drive for all the reasons stated above.
A new driver on a RWD platform? You want a fun rwd car buy it yourself. Most new drivers, and I consider a new driver the 1st 5 years they drive, can barely drive a FWD or AWD manual well. Let alone control a RWD car in sub optimal conditions.