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As a European I can tell you that driving a manual car is much more fun and you feel more in control of the car.
I actually agree with the last comment he read. When the streets are free it is fun. But in the City or in traffic jams it becomes really annoying. Especially if you have start and stop traffic all the time.
For me I just noticed, the situations, where it actually was fun, where to few. By now streets are just to packed and most of the time I felt annoyed rather than having fun, driving an manual car.
Therefore I wouldn't go back to driving a manual car.
As a European I can confirm that many Europeans believe this fairytale. I switched to automatic long ago. It is much more comfortable in many situations (e.g. traffic jam, stop and go, stop and start uphill, cruise control,…). What control do you have with manual you don’t have with automatic?
@@maxbarko8717 U decide in which gear you take a turn... It can be dangerous if the Automatic shifts in turns.... Unless you drive a Computer. When you drive a Computer instead of a car i would recomment the Automatic. Also Automatic is bad if you like to drift.
@@davidhusges204umm.. shift in turns? The shifting is so smooth usually and rpm control that you barely notice the shift..be it on straight or bend.
You don't just feel more in control, you actually got a lot more control and it's a lot safer. I'm from Austria and driving an old school automatic over a snowy mountain would be straight up suizide.
I am shocked to hear that in the US you guys can legally drive a manual car while having passed your exam with an automatic!
It's shocking. The standard of driving in the US is already appalling and 99% are in automatics 😂😂
Like with many other things, the us seems to be a third world country that´s dressed up fancy to look like an industrial country :D
The test in a lot of states only takes about 5 minutes anyway and might not even be on real roads!
@@Phiyedough yes it's shocking, when my cousin's stepson did his, he filled in a form afterwards and that gave him a motorcycle licence 🙄
I'm not 100% sure if it's true but I've read somewhere that they can drive both manual and automatic with the US drivers license in Europe too while they are visiting. That sounds scary to me when most of our cars are still manual but also because the license is so much easier to get there.
My Norwegian friend lived in the US for a few years. She got an insanely great price for a car with stick shift that the used car dealership couldn't get rid of. Both were very happy with the deal. The same car with automatic gear would have cost her three times the price she paid, and it was a pretty cool Mustang. She lived in a crime riddled area for the first couple of years, but nobody ever tried to steal her sweet ride because nobody knew how to drive it! 😁
Stick shift the ultimate genZ theft deterrent
@@johnmccallum8512 In the US it's all generations' theft deterrent by now. Very few people 70+ are in the car theft "industry".
That's a good thing to consider for every european who want's to buy a car in the US. Very smart 😉😂
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Genialt !
Hihihi. ...
As a 28 year old European, I cant believe there are people on this planet that do't know how to drive a manual car 😂
The same kind of people who can't handle the metric system 🤓
I don't know how to drive an automatic car. When I learnt to drive automatic cars were not a thing, well not in the UK anyway.
Why? Clearly, there are people on this planet ho don't know how to drive at all... And when it comes to automatic gear shifting, it's (supposed to be) easier... So clearly there will be drivers of automatic cars who can't shift gears and (more importantly) operate the clutch manually. What's unbelievable about that?
@@vaclavkrpec2879 stoop1d people
Norway used to be very into manual cars, but now most cars sold are fully electric and those that are not are usually automatic. It's getting more popular to just get a license for automatic cars only. Pretty much only veteran/vintage cars will have manual here in 10-15 years.
In Germany, when you did your driving lessons and exam on an automatic car exclusively, you are NOT allowed to drive a manual car. It is noted accordingly in your driver's license. It takes a lot of training to get things properly coordinated for driving a manual. He said "the early noughties" , meaning 2000-2009. Like in "nought/null/zero".
Same in uk
Well, very few manuals so don't worry about it you will be safe over there. I'm sure Europe is perfect and has no stupid laws.
Why did I as a German teenager understand that (I primarily speak American English) and he didn't? 😂
Here in Brazil you can only do your driving lessons in manual cars, if you want to learn to drive automatic, you'll have to buy your own after you get your license. You'll probably have to watch a CZcams tutorial video to understand how to operate a automatic vehicle, that's what I had to do to learn it when I had to drive my neighbor's automatic Corolla in a shared garage to move his car out of the way for me to be able to exit the garage with my Peugeot 206 manual
Same in the Netherlands
9:13 nought = zero! (Funny that a German has to explain that to you, isn't it?)
I really hope he learns something from this, but unlikely. We do our best I guess. 😢
I didn't know this either. Tnx.
0! = 1
Being Dutch I also know that ..... often well-educated non-native speakers have a better grip on the English language than native speakers.
Exactly, lol. "90's" or ninety's are 1990-1999, "00's" or noughty's are 2000-2009
I live in Norway and there is two ways to drive as safely as possible on snowy roads. One is to have a very technologically advanced car programmed to intermediate your input ot the car and the effect on the road. The traditional way is to get manual shift car and practice friction and surface for hours to learn what the wheels do on the surfaces at different speeds. When you have tested out the limits safely places with no traffic, then yoiu know the boundaries to keep within where there is traffic, and well within the boundaries to leave space for difficult situations. The reason you use manual for this is that you don't get sudden unintendent gear shifts at the wrong time. It takes very little to kick the wheels loose from the surface on winter condtions, so you want to be in control of that. If it happens in a curve it may be dangerous, even when driving slow. Of course you can learn the behavoir of an automatic, so that you know when not to apply any more gas, but it is harder to just let the wheels loose when you may need to. sometims when is is really slippery i may often need to release any force on the drive shaft and coast freely. Of course it is possilble to aquire a driving style that is safe with an automatic, but I have tried both and i feel more comfortable in a manual car on winter surfaces.
I like how the police leaving us to train winterdriving w.o. making trouble back in the day's. (We was flat out, but in "safe" area).
They was smart enough to let us play on ice and snow in "safe places" (Did go trough the ice in Bunnefjorden once).
That's how the kids get good...
By training
Nobody buys manual in Norway anymore though. Most people buy an electric car (80/90% of new cars sold) and the others usually buy an SUV with automatic.
Agreed you are in control in a manual, true you can make a mistake but an auto does things without your input, unless very modern [many people can't afford fancy new cars & drive much older cars that really should have been scraped] but every one thinks we drive the latest status symbol
I'm in Vermont. A couple years ago I wasn't able to move my wife's car on our ice-covered driveway for exactly that reason. I've been driving manual for 40 years and the automatic was a LOT harder.
I'm from Europe, my parents went to visit my brother in Canada last month. My dad's 2 main complaints :
The BMW they rented was automatic and he didn't feel in control. He would try to accelerate and the car would first shift down, take a few seconds and then really accelerate
And their huge highways with god knows how many lanes, but still limited to 100km/h
I felt the same with some rental car during a repair (in Europe). It gets even worse with Start-Stop which you can't hold at the crossing with the clutch. If there is a small gap I don't feel secure that the computer is fast enough to get me onto the road before the next car comes.
Another thing is residential areas with lots of intersections where you need to stop or at least slow down and then accelerate again. It always feels like it doesn't know what to do and likes to play through the gears all the time.
I like it for simple routes where you just drive without much speed changing and it switches OK.
Exact same experience as a Dutchman in Curacao. Rental car was automatic and everytime I thought I needed some speed because I was anticipating what some other driver was going to do and it indeed shifts down, waits a second and then gives it the revs. Super annoying!
same in my alps mountain my PHEV car is less reactive than my manual hatchback, i need to handle that 1sec delay of the car thinking : oh he want to accelerate hard, let me downshift then accelerate ( even when shifting with the manual wheel pedals) and even then..the car wil put the upper gear even if u want to stay high in the rpm....unlike my hatchback who don t give a shit and say: okkk do whatever u like at 6000rpm...
Had an automatic Seat Leon for a week, and I loved it. Acceleration was no problem at all, and it didn't take seconds to shift down. So I think it is a little bit BS.
@@JacobBax seat use audi dsg gearbox, it s one of the bestdouble clutch system (but u pay the price)
I'm nearly sixty years old and don't think I've ever even sat in an automatic car. One day America will catch up with Europe and make their citizens actually learn to drive, rather than give them a certificate for driving a glorified bumper car.
Actually, with electrification and "smart cars 🤮" it will be the other way around...
A Manual in America..
It's The best Anti Theft Device Ever..
@@sidewalkereyes, sadly...😢
Never going to happen, EVs are all automatics.
@@sidewalkere i realise that, but that doesn’t work as a joke about America
If you learn how to drive an automatic in Germany, you are NOT allowed to drive a manual and I’d imagine it’s the same in the UK..
So again, the US is the odd one out here
I’ve never heard about anyone i know taking their driving tests in an automatic hough
i think its everywhere you go like this in europe isnt it?
Yes correct. I passed my manual test at 17 [1978] in the UK and can drive both manual and automatics. If you did the automatic test, then you can only drive automatic cars.
So makes sense to do the manual test.
Edit: I have a German licence now even though I live in England as I lived and worked in Germany [when we had to change the licence - now no longer, but will at a later date].
I know exactl two people with an automatic license. One has a family who never had a manual and the automatic license is a bit cheaper. The other has chronic knee pain on her left side which makes using a clutch uncomfortable
@@mihkelreimand5044 in Spain, you can take the test in an automatic, but if you do, you are only permitted to drive automatics. To drive both, you need to test on a manual, or if you test in an automatic, you need to take a supplemental test in a manual before you can be licensed to drive both.
I passed my driving test I'm a manual car but did my HGV in an automatic lorry but as I have a manual licence I can drive a manual lorry too.
Live in Australia, three cars in the drive way. Two manual's one Auto. All have manual license. At my Daughter's house exactly the same. Both grandkids have manual cars. I have owned autos, but find them boring. At 63 years old, I've gone back to driving a manual again. 😊
Yeah not just European countries. Aussie manuals also have the same three pedals so I don't get the shock lol. I still drive my manual. I actually get nervous in an Auto as I feel a loss of control without the gear changing. Though my arthritis is now making it painful in peak traffic and long trips 😀
I'm in the US and we have 3 with manual and the wife has an A3 with a DSG auto. The DSG is not that bad but I still like my manual. My 15 yo likes manual the best but manuals have gotten exotic a trendy among the Gen-Z here.
The misconception is that you need to concentrate on shifting gears. If you are an experienced manual driver, it just comes naturally and you don‘t need to actively concentrate (the same way you just „walk“ and don‘t need to actively concentrate to set one foot in front of the other).
You can't beat the sound of the rev's changing as you shift up those gears.
revs. No need for the apostrophe..... Don't the revs change when you shift down too?
@@Brian-om2hh Sure - but not so much of a buzz
Or the horror of a sound when you mistimed the clutch and shifting gears.
If you can’t find it grind it😂
@@MsSpiralmonkey we are saying - "It is needed to recount all teeth time to time"
I’m a 69-year-old woman, Ryan and I still think a manual car is so much fun. Would hate to not have one. It’s what driving is all about
I fully agree with that, but I would like to have the option to switch between manual for fluent traffic and automatic for traffic jams on highways.
Then live in a REAL city and drive that crap troughout the main times and rush hours - you will very, very fast change your mind.
I'm from Italy and in my entire life I only drove manual cars. I did driving school practice with a manual.
In my whole family (and relatives too) no one has ever driven an automatic car.
The latest car I bought is actually automatic, I was "forced" to buy it because it didn't come with the same configuration but with manual.
It's been a couple years now, there are some things I like and some I don't.
To be more specific:
- it's way more comfortable to drive in traffic with an automatic car, because with all that clutch work you'd have to do with manual, probably you could always skip legs-day at gym 😂 sometimes, with my old manual cars I happened to get cramps in traffic, it was horrible
- I always feel nervous when I have to overcome someone or enter a roundabout/highway and I tend to be way too prudent, because there's an annoying "lag" from when I press the accelerator and when the car's speed grows/starts moving. With manual car I used to have much more control and I could get a more instant speed by shifting gears. They're more responsive.
And you wasted way more gas when driving manual .... my cars have no lag at all, they are all above 400 hp and when I step on the pedal, they react.
One has a seven gear automatic transmission, the other one even has ten ....
@@Eysenbeiss Who tells you I wasted more petrol with my old manual car than with the automatic one I own now?
Actually, in my case, it's the opposite.
I'm a well educated driver and I don't stamp my foot on the accelerator just for fun.
If you can drive manual and if you can feel when the car requires you to change gears, you can manage to be even less wasteful than with an automatic car.
With my old manual car I used the accelerator with more precision and only when actually needed.
With the automatic car I'm using now, when I need more speed, I have to stamp heavily on the accelerator, until the car understands it needs to shift to the lower gear to transmit more power to the wheels. The petrol gets injected into the engine, it goes high revs and, only after some seconds, it shifts gear.
It sounds like a waste to me.
Maybe it's just my car which is not well-optimized as other automatic ones.
Maybe here in Europe we're well trained on how to properly drive manual cars.
Or maybe here in Europe we don't need super huge heavy cars with huge engines and huge horsepower, therefore our automatic cars are less equipped and have less instantaneous power than yours.
Our biggest SUVs are smaller than your average car... Maybe the fuel waste is somewhere else.
@@Giotrope96 @Eysenbeiss The thing is, I think people who thinks that automatic cars are more reactive might have some mercedes or bmw or audi cars which are way more powerfull. If you drive a fucking automatic peugeot or fiat, then good luck with that XD
I 100% agree that you have more control over your car with a manual. The thing is you can have a trash car and still make it really reactive if you want. I have a small ford fiesta atm with not a lot of horsepowers, and where I live there is an acceleration line on the highway which is only 300 meters (wth). Having a manual car allows me to really push it in 3 secs as I enter the highway at 3rd or 4th gear at 110-120 km with no problem. Then I ll go on my 6th gear when Im on the highway and just chill. Also, I already said it in another comment, but In switzerland or Corsica where there is a lot of mountains and turns, having a manual allows you to use your engine brake more efficiently, which results or not having to change the brakes as often as in an automatic one. My sister just changed a manual audi for a 3008 automatic peugeot and she lives in Corsica, she is so pissed at her car because she has to take care of the brakes everyyytimmeee and they get worn faster, so it costs her a lot of money 🤷
@@tagadaki that's exactly my case. Since I'm single and I don't need to carry big loads I've always preferred city cars.
I drove a manual Fiat Panda 169 (which was incredibly responsive if you consider the microscopic 1.2 engine it mounts), an old manual Skoda Fabia (small 1.4 engine, bigger and heavier car, but still reactive), my parents' manual Renault Scenic Mégane (waaay more bigger, heavier, family car, 1.6 diesel engine) and my current automatic Toyota Aygo (small 1.0 engine, but it's by far the lightest car of all above).
Despite its light weight, the automatic Aygo feels more "clumsy" and slow than the others. Even the huge Scenic, with a TDCi small engine compared to its weight, feels more agile and snappier.
Some months ago I also tried a friend's manual Citroen C1 and it was way more responsive and agile than my Aygo.
(P.S. Toyota Aygo/Peugeot 107/Citroen C1 are the same identical car, they only variate from each others for aesthetic elements)
@@Giotrope96 Yeah thats no suprise, I always prefered small cars too as they pass everywhere in the mountains, people with their huge SUV are so scared to scratch them they fucking drive in the middle ! 🤦♀(I have a trick for that, usually I fake Im going on their side so they freak out and fucking go back to their side of the road 😆). It's no suprise either that they are the same cars as they use a lot of automotive suppliers who work for different car companies. So yeah, I like my lil manual Ford Fiesta too, she can be responsive, 60 euros per month is enough for gas, and I feel I have control over it. If one day I buy an an automatic It ll be probably a good brand like bmw/audi/mercedes (and they are way too expensive for me), else I ll stick to manuals.
Last week I had a problem. I took my car to the workshop and got a rental car. But that was an automatic with only two pedals. The next time I turned, I had two feet on the brake pedal because I was looking for the clutch.
Driving an automatic is really difficult if you're only used to manual cars.
Agreed but you get used to it after a while. But had a similar experience trying to find the clutch pedal. When I drove automatic for the first time.
Had auto's in the past whilst stationed in Germany, fine on the Autobahns. I looked at two different automatics a couple of years ago when buying a new car. A Mazda and a Vauxhall. I agree with you, as I did something similar? I could get used to it but it just feels clumsy and surprisingly ponderous on a new car. I stuck with a boring manual Ford. Perhaps the more sporty new automatics are better?
No, driving an auto isn't difficult. The difficulty you were experiencing, was your mindset was unable to adjust.
I once drove my dads Volvo automatic, 26 years ago. The constant soundtrack playing was my dad shouting 'put your left foot under the seat!' 'Your braking and accelerating at the same time!'. I leaving out the curse words. It was that day I realised 3 things, manuals for me are dangerous; they are boring, and I should get someone who was not my dad to teach me to drive 😂
No it's not. I've had manual cars for 40 years, then last year I decided to buy an imported American car, so I went from manual right hand drive to automatic left hand drive in one go..! No problem, 10 minutes and I was used to how things worked. I suppose I'm lucky, I've driven cars, buses and motorcycles and never had any serious problems with any of them. Well unless you count the bus passengers, that is 🤣
In the U.K. buying a new car with the option of automatic transmission, adds about £1K to the price of its manual alternative, which usually deliver better fuel economy as well. So, for many motorists the cheaper the better!
I'd probably choose manual in that situation as well. Though I wouldn't be able to drive my own car
And often you also need to choose the bigger engine, too, or there is no automatic option. Which adds another 1-4K for the motor and then more on taxes and insurance.
Yeah same situation in finland
It's the opposite - the average driver saves gas by using an automatic transmission and that's a fact, proven over and over again, even in studies in the UK.
@@Eysenbeiss It easily can be truth, I know how stepped on throat on my 1980 Škoda 105L when I was nervous and it burned 10.5L/100km. When I was calm and drove it in "EKO mode" (no such thing was around those days) it took decent 6.5L/100km. Of course, old hydraulic automats could spent up to 15% of power, later planetary transmissions were similar concept as motorcycle transmissions and nowadays is such mechanical automated transmission driven by sophisticated SW and maybe even with AI involved, which can easily overcome heavy drivers foot (Hard to say exactly, I see a lot of corrections on my comment already - I'm not car specialist)
I bought my car brand new and it’s a 5 speed manual.. I have always had manuals .. I absolutely love them 😎🇦🇺
Real driving.
Learned to drive in a Ford escort, 4speed 2Lt. 🤘🇦🇺
Don‘t worry about driving a manual daily. Once you learned and practiced it daily it goes into your muscle memory. You do not think about shifting, rev matching etc. you just do it. Only in traffic it‘s getting annoying, esp. in city traffic. Please do a video about how to learn driving a manual. That would be fun.
I'm from Scotland. I've always had a manual car and I have no desire to change. I enjoy driving. I've driven an automatic on a few occasions but didn't enjoy it.
A thing to note on what guy said on the video at 6:20, he said that the amount of NEW cars sold being automatic. Thats the thing to keep in mind. When most people buy a car, it isn't new its 2nd hand (or 3rd or 4th). That means that while more and more new cars are automatic the majority of cars on the road aren't.
As for the fuel price conversion 1 gallon equals a little under 4 liters. So in my area petrol (gasoline) costs about £1.53 per liter (at time of writing) so 4 liters of petrol is £6.12 (approx) and £6.12 translates to about $7.50 (currently). So we pay $7.50 per gallon.
Edit: Turns out I forgot there was a difference between UK and US gallons (thank you for pointing that out). Because of that my rough calculations were off. So the figure is actually $7.04 per US gallon (as was pointed out in the replies).
I hope you have taken the UK/US differences in to account. A UK gallon is 4.54 litres.
Using your figures 4.54 litres@ 1.53 =£6.94. £5.78 per US gallon. ($7.04)
@@elemar5
Yes, I did the US Gallon and got £5.80 (rounded up from 5.7987).
You're right I totally forgot about the difference between UK and US gallons!
@@elemar5
The default for anyone learning to drive in the UK is to learn manual. Over all I think the UK driving test is one of the most difficult and most intense in the world. We learn proper driving from the get go, as you learn how to properly control your car and understand how it works. It also gives more control and fuel efficiency (if driven correctly). For example, you can use down gear shifting to ease breaking (clutch breaking), can anticipate corners and hills to change gears earlier etc. He's saying noughties as in the 2000s, not the nineties. Knowing you can pass in an automatic and then drive a manual is a scary thought and you can't do this in the UK. Also worth noting that it's illegal to use your phone in the UK while driving (including even if you're sat idle with the engine on). If caught you can get 6 points on your licence and a £200 fine (If you get 12 points within a 3 year period, you lose your licence).
Your comment that we have the hardest test peaked my interest. I've heard similar comments before so I went and googled it. We aren't even in the top ten. China, Montenegro and Hungary are apparently the hardest. Sweden seems like you have to do a lot of extra stuff to get your licence too such as a narcotics course and a test for slippery conditions. A Swede can correct me if that's not accurate.
FUN FACT: And bearing in mind, I always thought our (UK) 'Highway Code' was the most comprehensive and detailed book on 'driving generally'! BUT, I was wrong; The Spanish 'Highway Code' is the most detailed in Europe and is three times the length of the UK...
Brazil has an extremely hard tests too. most people fail a few times
@knottyeti China is more a beuracratic nightmare so if you do fail first attempt or something, good luck ever trying again. Just being allowed to have a car is a thing there.
Europe generally has pretty good driving tests, I'm not sure specifically about Hungary or Montenegro but I would not be surprised to find if they were comparable across Europe and more it is a question of how we rate little intracacies amongst Euopean countries.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 well, a 20% increase is expected just from language differences, French and Spanish words and phrases are on average 20% longer than their English equivilents.
A big part of it though is that the Código de Tráfico y Seguridad Vial contains things like, the regulations driver testing centers need to comply with, the regulations for private driving schools, the regulation for the commercial vehicle inspectors, the regulations on exact spacing on the signs and the paint on the road... We have all that as separate documents in the UK, quite frankly I don't need to know how many inspectors each location must employ and how much they get paid to be safe on the road. There is detail, and then there is useless guff here.
I am located in germany and had different cars, manual and automatic. Often the automatic variant was heavier and sometimes 3k more expensive. For that money I rather chose more and other luxurious extras thatI liked. And I always liked to drive manual. (Except in heavy traffic) 😅
Ryan, as a Brit I just want to tell you that despite what nationalists in my country would have you believe, the UK is still in Europe (the continent) as it always has been and always will be. Thanks for your reactions
Ryan did not make a mistake, it's the title of the video he's watching:
"Why are manual cars popular in the UK and Europe" which makes totally sense
@@cyb3rkoThe title of the video makes no sense, given the UK is definitely still a European country.
Put the steerinwhele in the right side of your cars...
@@andersrefstad8235 It is on the right side of the car! 😉
@@ffotograffydd
No. NO !
YOU HAWE THAT ONE WRONG 🤣
Automatic Toyota Camry in 1999 is still concidered a big car in the UK
Yep, its over 2 litre, its a V6, get about 24-32mpg, and its a big footprint.
That's big on fuel also takes a lot of road space, for UK.
@@stephenlee5929Now I feel a bit better about my girl's thirstiness - BMW 540i 4.4L V8 - which is similar to that! She's automatic too, much as I like my manuals generally.
There is a safety aspect to driving a manual car. Say you are driving down a road and see a bend ahead, in an automatic you will brake but continue in whatever gear you are in, which can give a feeling of lack of control going round the corner, and then you would have to kick down to accelerate after the bend. In a manual on the approach to the bend you change down a gear, engine braking slows you down usually without having to brake, you have more grip round the corner and you are already in the correct gear to accelerate again. Gives a much more satisfying feeling.
I have an automatic that allows manual shift changes. If I use the brakes (or slow down) it automatically changes down the gear to the appropriate level so I'm ready to accelerate again. So your point doesn't apply to all vehicles.
P.S. This happens even in manual mode. If I have to show down or break unexpectedly, the gears shift down automatically.
I find driving an automatic 'safer' in some conditions, having both hands on the steering wheel without having to worry about the gears. Maybe that's just me, and I do understand the 'safety' advantages of manual gears in other situations. Luckily, my car allows both.
The past. My automatic Corolla corrects itself taking bends.
Here in Latvia you also get a note (remark 78) in your drivers license that you are allowed to drive "Automatic only" if you take exam on non-manual gearbox car.
Portuguese here. I absolutely LOVE manual cars! We have total control, we can have fun, we can feel the pleasure of driving.
As long as they exist on the market , they will always be my choice!
Guess what? My Bentley has over 600 HP and I am having fun, BECAUSE I have autmatic transmission, cause this is way more precice AND efficient, than immature kids like you would ever be able to operate the same with a manual transmission at all.
@@Eysenbeiss Immature kids like me !? 🤣🤣🤣🤣I am 58 years old !! 😂😂😂
Man you just feel at one with the car.
You can feel the Motor gripping the clutch transferring all it's power to the wheels. You are feeling the gears spinning and matching.
Honestly you learn so much about the car intuitively, it becomes like an extention of your body.
Next level is driving a bike, where you have to use your whole body and really become one with the road and the machine.
The feeling of freedom while being on a bike for the first time is so insane, you become addicted.
And then you're stuck in stop and go traffic, and you're merely pumping the clutch in first gear to 10 KPH when the guy in front of you finally moves. That's what automatics were invented for, convenience. If you're really out on backwoods roads a lot, then as you say buy a motorcycle.
I learned on manual cars on the inner cities in France or on long distance it's amazing to have the feeling of your car under your hands moving the gear hearing the motor being not happy because you still didn't move from the 3rd to 4th one😊
Canadian here. I have always hated automatics. Manual transmissions make driving so much safer, more flexible in bad weather and fun. One of the factors I love is ability to downshift rather than brake. I can usually go nearly the life of a car without having to do any brake repairs. I can often drive into town without ever having to step on the brake except for the occasional misjudgement of a traffic light. You should try it :)
As a fellow Canadian, I completely agree. And may I add that I got a smoking deal for my manual!
Nice :) @@kaul407
Yes, engine braking is a lost art of driving! 👍🏻😎
I've always assumed that engine braking puts more stress on the engine than braking normally, and engines are much harder (and more expensive) to repair than brakes. Also, braking normally just slows you down faster, so you can get to where you're going more quickly, as you can carry your speed closer to corners.
@@Zanockthael I have never had engine problems due to shifting down. In fact I have never heard that this would ever be an issue. I have been driving with manual transmissions my entire driving life (50+ years) and have had no issues other than clutch repair on 2 occasions in all those years. Carrying speed to corners is no problem and you have so much more control through a turn when you shift down rather than brake.
Having driven in the states, I really appreciated automatic transmission, you drive long distances on straight(ish) roads and it's just less taxing to drive. In Europe, with our older, twistier road system, I prefer the control a manual gives. I had an automatic here in my home in Scotland. It was a nightmare, I couldn't change to the right gear in anticipation of the road, e.g. changing down a gear for an upcoming steeply up-hill bendy section of road.
One definitely can use manual override with auto boxes, but they don't always enable full semi-automatic gear changes. Traditionally the manual override simply represents "this gear or lower".
What is the point of automatic transmission on a long straight line drive? We never change gears.
@user-nj2qc9wk2r Automatics are for disabled people.
like one of my mums friends who was missing most of his right arm.
and even he could drive a manual Trabant, where the gear shifter was right next to the steering wheel and not next to the driver seat, but that design fell out of fashion in the early nineties so he had to go automatic.
@@thordsalmond8189 that's a good point 🙂
I'm not sure if you were joking when you were talking about texting and driving but to be clear ; it is illegal to text and drive in the UK.
Same as Australia
I hope he was joking.
No sense of self preservation.
its illegal in the US as well, but in a manual you are less tempted because you never really have a free hand
I don't know why anyone needs to text whilst driving.@@moritzheinzel815
It has been a trend for many years for cars to become more and more automated. So the driver has less and less direct control. I remember when people started blaming skidding on the failure of their Anti Lock Breaking Systems. The latest thing I noticed is that cars now have an automated hill start function to stop them rolling backwards. Having always driven basic manual cars, I would find this so annoying. Like when my driving instructor kept using his pedals to interfere with the way I was driving. I suspect I would find driving an automatic totally frustrating now.
Anyone who as a kid grew up in a farming community, knows how to drive standard transmission. Few farm vehicles or equipment come with automatic. It is possibly more true for boys in the case of older generations, but most kids, even today start driving things on farms when very young, and mostly stick to what they learned as they grow older - which is standard transmission.
When I bought my stick shift Honda Civic in 2008 (Tampa, Florida), no one at the dealership could drive it from the back to deliver it to me in front of the building. I had to go and take it myself . Funny moment for a European.
He didn't mean "nineties," you dolt.
He used "naughts" as in "aughts," as in 2000-2009.
I think you mean 'nought', 'naught' means something else
In germany today for 1 Liter is about 1,85€.
1 Gallon so is about 7 Euro (actual 7.40 USD)
I drive an 1 Liter 3 cylinder with 115HP with a new double clutch automatic and it is fine (200km/h is possible on the autobahn 😂)
But i love also manual, because you feel much more what your car does. Of course manual makes much much more fun
You drive a VW? I rented a polo with a similar engine in Munich this winter and took it to 196km/h on autobahn. :)
I'm from Europe and I bought brand new car few months back. It's a manual. I chose the manual because I prefer to have more control over the car and I also feel more engaged while driving it. Also it enables me to shift to a higher/lower gear when I deem it appropriate. Road conditions vary quite a lot depending on the season so it's sometimes necessary. I've driven cars with automatic gearboxes, but don't enjoy them much.
I believe one contributing factor for widespread automatic cars in US is the age at which you get your driver's license. I doubt that a lot of 16 year old teenagers are eager to spend weeks learning to properly drive manual, while automatic let's you hit the road almost instantly.
What control do you have an automatic doesn’t have? Automatic today is more economical than manual. People n Germany are so retarded when it comes to automatic.
You can also select gears yourself with most modern autos.... My Golf DSG auto had manual gear selection if you wanted it. Move the gear selector forwards to change up, or pull it backwards to change down. I preferred just leaving it in D to sort itself out.
I taught my niece how to drive using a car with a manual transmission. Her first car ended up being the car I taught her in. Alas, all the cars she had afterward were purchased by her grandparents, so she ended up with autos every time. I'm not sure if she can drive a manual any more.
As a European who likes manual: It's about control. I have had a few bad experiences with automatic. In particular parallel parking in snow. For extra bonus points, do it on a slope. There is a very fine line between on the one hand being stuck in the snow and on the other hand crashing into the cars around you. I need to control when the accelerator connects to the wheels.
Manual has higher skill ceiling
Never see snow here in San Francisco area, but we do have something that separates the men from the boys when manual transmissions are involved. Starting on an incline on some of the outrageous SF hills, will reduce amateur manual drivers to jelly.
@@philbarrows2431 Today you can cheat with hill start assist. Besides that, most cars, like my Audi and F-250, are throttle by wire so it compensates when lifting off the clutch slowly. When teaching my son to drive last summer I put him in his auntie's '96 Sentra to get the full experience.
I like both and have both manual and automatic cars. Driving on long twisty roads in a manual is very fun and involving and you can't have nearly as much enjoyment in an auto (even if you change gears manually). On the other hand there are cases where I just want to get from point A to point B without getting annoyed by traffic jams and "let the car drive me", then I much prefer the automatic.
One drawback of the automatic I've even felt myself is that it allows for much more distraction. I don't text or use my phone when driving but not having much engagement in operating the car leads my eyes to wander around more. In a manual I feel more focused even though I don't really think about changing gears. It is more on a subconscious level - I'm always trying to anticipate turns, elevation and changes in the environment to get into the proper gear in advance.
The latter is also a mild annoyance with automatics - often the gearbox picks the wrong gear in certain situations and has to shift again (let's say it shifts up just before a steep hill and then it has to downshift immediately). Changing gears manually (via the paddles) can help but without the clutch the satisfaction of achieving the perfect shift is simply not there.
As a person that recently aquired car with automatic transmission I can say that manual is a lot of fun and most of the time non-issue. But sometime it is a bit bothersome if you just are "not in the mood" and the traffic is erratic and you have to shift constantly without any enjoyment of the ride. My Automatic is also very lively so the feeling is great when I get my foot down and the transmission kicks down 2 gears to get to the redline and takes off.
It also has the paddleshifting if Im really in the mood for shifting myself. It is great car (Suzuki SCross 2019 fot those interested).
Americans have to focus on driving in a straight line, we can’t expect them to drive manual as well that’s just too much to comprehend for them
You can buy manual cars in the US. Most people don’t buy them as they cost more and the car insurance for a manual car is also higher.
Gas in Europe, in average is 60-70% more expensive than in the USA. Prices used to be much more different, but the USA's grip on the international oil trade and reserves is getting a bit loose :P
When I went to the USA for the first time it was 1999, and I remember I was shocked to see gas being below a dollar per gallon, when in my country (Spain) gas was above a dollar for a liter (1 gallon is 3,78 liters). I knew gas around Europe had around the same price, so it wasn't something that only happened to my country, and therefore it was one of the first lessons in what American Exceptionalism actually means xD
i would pay to see a Ryan Wuzer learning to drive stick!
"Drive stick" is just such an awful phrase isn't it. Only in America.
Gear stick
@@philjones45 what makes the phrase awful to you? i used it as a european not knowing people disliked this phrase ^^
@@philjones45Women mightn't love the term as they could perceive it as likening them to witches. 🤔
‘One of the several ways to call the number 0 is ‘naught’ (others are of course zero, nil, nought). Because of this, some people started calling the decade after the 90s the ‘naughties’.
Toyota Camry is medium/big car for European standard. Many people started with smaller "city" cars like Opel Corsa, Ford Fiesta or Toyota Yaris with small engines, they learned manual there and later didn't feel need for paying extra for automatic.
I learnt in a Manual car and made sure my kids did also,they said mum why and I said so you can drive both.
I personally prefer a manual is because, where I live, there are a lot a small narrow (single track) roads with steep hills (1/4 or 1/5) and manual has more immediate umph. My preference.
If that's what you want, try an EV. 100% torque from a standstill......no revving to find the powerband.
lot very slow control is whats needed, some passing places even if both cars off road its mm clearance so the finer the control the better, auto they seem to learch ft forward or back well the auto i driven try to move inch it do ft so useless and parking in small road side spot, tight bad twisty roads prob very bad road surface too the control a manual gives very useful
As a 39 year old who lives in the UK and has always had manual cars. I recently got my first automatic, a Mercedes A200. It's easily the nicest car I've owned to date. It's got a great interior and all the tech that you want. It's really comfortable and easy to drive. But I do find myself missing my old (manual) VW Polo BlueGT sometimes. It might not have had all the tech or the nice interior etc... But it was just more fun to drive. You feel more connected to the car and more in control of what is happening. Taking it out for a blast on a twisty B-road just put a smile on your face. I don't get that same feeling with the Merc. It feels more like I'm a passenger along for the ride.
I have a feeling that this could be part of the reason why the UK (and Europe for that matter) differ so much to the US when it comes to manual vs automatic cars. From my understanding, and what I've seen when I've been to America, you don't really have many fun twisty roads. Whereas the UK, and Europe as a whole tend to have lots of them. The vast majority in the US however, are very straight and very long. So, due to this, I imagine most people don't really tend to go out for a drive just for fun. As driving in a straight line for ages isn't really much fun. So, you want a car that is automatic and focused more on comfort instead.
I have recently taken ownership of a 2nd hand Peugeot 2008 and it has so many gizmos and electricery in it. Auto lights, auto wipers, parking sensors, low tyre pressure sensores, tells me when to change up a gear, tells me to put my seat belt on, tells me to remove the key from the ignition. Last week it told me, and this is true, to change the battery in my remote!!! God I miss my little 1978 and 1979 Mark 1 Ford Fiestas.
Italian here, always drove manual transmission car and, sometimes, 13-16 speed manual transmission truck (Iveco, Scania).
I always loved using engine brake (in car: in truck, unless emergency, you should use hydraulic retarder) to slow down instead of wasting brake (near an exit, shift from 5° to 4° at 100km/h 62mph to obtain enough engine brake to slow down to 60km/h 37mph).
Now, due plug-in hybrid vechicle, i'll switch to automated transmission (not automatic, automated), so i'll be forced to learn again all driving tricks i learned on manual cars (except clutchless gear change).
My old VW Passat Variant automatic from the 70s took almost double the gas of its manual counterpart. It was expensive even back then..
Cars with an automatic transmission are usually large and luxurious, often with a V6 engine or a V8 engine. It was like this in Europe in the 80s. But in the 2000s, more cars came with 2 liter engines and automatic transmissions, and people started buying them, often because they sat in queues both to and from work. But there are still probably more cars with a manual gearbox than an automatic on passenger cars. Here in Norway, there is snow for about 5 months of the year, and it is much easier to drive a car with a manual than an automatic in such conditions, this because you can become addicted to maintaining a certain speed on hills, where you want to decide when you want to shift gears. As there have also been many more cars with 4x4 here, many of these have automatic transmissions, this because they are easier to handle on ice and snow due to the 4x4 system. Today, there are many people living around the cities who drive electric cars, and these are automatic, but that is because they cannot be bought with a manual gearbox. And here another aspect also comes into play, such as weight and 4x4. The smallest electric cars usually have a CVT gearbox, but they mostly manage quite well since they are mostly used to and from work, and therefore not so bothered by hills and a lot of snow. And the reason why many people have a small car, or an electric car, is of course the petrol costs. Today, a liter of petrol costs about two and a half dollars. That is why there are few large American cars in Norway, even though we like them very much, but they are both expensive to purchase and very expensive to operate.
I'm almost 60 and I think I'm near the end of it being expected for men in the US to know how to drive a manual. It was extremely embarrassing for young man not to know how to drive a manual. I prefer to drive a manual, however I agree with you that in heavy city traffic an automatic is preferable. You make an interesting point about 4x4's. All the ones I've owned and driven have been automatic.
I am Czech and I must say that I drove automatic car only once (and it was American car) - any other car I have ever driven was a manual and a car that I own is manual (and American) as well... :)
I'm British and my Father owns a Automatic BMW and my Mother owns a manual Audi.
In Denmark, it has always been manual, when you took the driving license...
Now you can pass the test in automatic, but then you are only allowed to drive automatic.. unless you pass a new test in manual...
And those of us, who passed in manual, can drive both.
I think it depends on where you live, in big cities with loads of traffic it probably is just better to have an automatic. I’m fortunate enough to live in an area where theres not nearly as much traffic, theres loads of bendy roads, elevation changes etc. so even to drive a normal everyday manual car can be so much fun.
One of the reasons why we drive mostly manual, is the cost: manual is a lot cheaper. And we don't have a 'manual fobia', so it's not a big deal. Also in the Nordic countries manual is easier to handle in snow and ice. Lots of funny videos in the CZcams about Americans when the conditions would be 'just another winter day' back in Finland 😄
But my project car is an AMC Hornet with 360CID V8 and TH400 transmission: sometimes reason has nothing to do with it 😂
I am familiar with both and prefer manual. In the UK, if you pass the driving test in an automatic car, you are only licensed to drive automatics. The noughties includes the years 2000 to 2010.
Beside the fun factor there are mainly three reasons for choosing a manual transmission (MT) over an automatic transmission (AT):
1) As mentioned in the video, an AT is more expensive because of higher production costs of the transmission itself and also the additional electronics needed to do the shifting for you.
2) The power and torque losses of an AT (which uses a converter to tranfer the drive force from the engine towards the wheels) are higher. You barely don't notice that with big engines and a lot of power under the hood, but with small and "underpowered" engines, AT's are a pain in the a**.
3) You ARE more in control of the car (@t0nito), especially when driving a car a bit "over it's limits". It's way more easy to "catch" a car, when you are able to use the clutch to disconnect the engine power from the wheels. Modern cars, however, have an ESP (electronic stability program), that will do the "catching" for you (to a certain degree) or even prevent you in advance from going "wild". At least until you turn off ESP! ;-)
It's a matter of personal choice for most people; for some people, with a disability, an automatic may be necessary. Passing your test in a manual allows you to change to an automatic if you want to.
UK is still a part of Europe...😂 You can't drive a manual car with an automatic license in my country. The other way around, sure. The noughties is the early 2000's, not the 90's.
As per continental shelf / geology...
...but just not a part of the 'EU'. (Sadly !)
@@brigidsingleton1596 Don't worry, the UK will rejoin. It may take a while though. First we have to come to our senses and let go of that d** British exceptionalism.
@@AlexGys9
Not all of us Brits are dicks though !!
The one and only point why you drive a manual, sequencial or manual double clutch with the ability to blip(rev match) yourself, is because it's the only way to have perfect car contol, dancing on the grip limit, or in other words because you wanna play Rally driver on less frequented roads, what's the farorite hobby of most european car owners ;)
The thing is, the more you drive a manual, the less you think about shifting and "being in control" and stuff. It just flows without using your brain. Your muscle memory just keeps working for you when you drive... Its all about practise.
the noughties are the 2000's. This character here - 0 - isnt called zero, zero is an absence of something represented by the character nought. British people dont call it a zero they call it a nought, zero is how much, nought is the character that represents how much. Also i recently got an automatic car and honestly i miss manual, our roads here in the uk are filled with so many hilly valleys and twists and turns that driving an automatic can feel a bit jerky because of how it switches gear, you might not realise if youve only ever driven automatics but manually you can get a really clean consistent gear change that doesnt feel jerky and its just second nature so doesnt take up any brain capacity and it really helps to quickly downshift or shift up when needed and you can just hold the clutch down and the car will start rolling with no engine breaking as if it was in neutral.
And just to confuse things we often switch to calling nought the letter O when giving phone numbers. We are a funny old lot & I love it.
Manual works better on ice and snow if the terrain is hilly.
Hills made no difference to my auto. It got up them with no problem.
I grew up in Vancouver, Canada and have always chosen a manual over an automatic. I just like feeling like I am driving the car. Plus, once you know how to drive a manual, it really isn't any less convenient or easy than driving an automatic. The shifting comes naturally - it isn't as hard as it looks.
I've had more than fifty cars, only one was automatic. Manual gears are simpler and sturdier, and they give you more control when the going gets rough, like offroad driving. They are also more efficient. A manual gearbox usually outlives the rest of the car. Then , being a Spaniard, maybe I am crazy.
As a Europian I love manual transmission. It just pulls you more into the drive. But I've been in a DSG automatic and I love how when you floor the gas, it just pushes you in and doesn't let go
I think the main reason for torque converter autos not having become very popular outside of America is because we in Europe tend to have cars with much smaller engines. This massively magnifies the sensation of the delay in speed 'catching up ' with engine revs and is similar to a manual car that has a worn and slipping clutch. Dual clutch automatics are much better but can suffer from jerkiness at low speed and when parking etc. The subject of CVT autos is a bit like discussing former failed romances, bloody awful.
It's more of an economic thing here, the average size engine in the UK is 1.6l, so until DSG gearboxes came in, it was so inefficient with an auto box, plus autos generally use more fuel, are in a higher road tax bracket and cost more from new. If you need to hire a car in the UK, an auto will cost a lot more than a manual - unless there is no other option, like for the big executive cars or hybrid/electric. Most vans and light trucks are still manual, the HGVs are starting to change to auto, especially for buses and coaches - but I believe in the US most trucks are still manual!!
Conquer Driving videos were a great help to my son.
Electric cars are manual? I think you mixed up the words there a bit, most electric cars only have one gear xD
I am over 60, only just bought my second automatic car. Here in the UK I generally prefer manual transmission cars, they do offer an extra degree of control. A manual car is a pleasure on winding roads, it is difficult to describe, you can change the entire balance of the car with an up or down change. Incidentally the ban of the sale of new petrol/diesel cars has been pushed back to 2035.
Im 52 and had my first automatic about 2 years ago, couldn't stand it and sold it a few weeks later never to get another. when you hit a good country lane bend on national speed limit and you get it perfect in 2nd or 3rd gear going for it with full control then they will understand 😊
Guess what? You can drive ANY car with automatic transmission the same way ... what do you think the 1 and 2 is for?
And btw. you NEVER get more control over a car with five to six shift manual transmission, than what my cars with seven to then shift automatic transmission have, NEVER, especially when it comes to efficency.
@@cornovii3012 I had both and now, it is NOT like you stated, but I am used to those stupid lines, with people overestimating their views.
@@Eysenbeiss You have obviously never pushed a manual to its limits have you. probably dont even know how to drive a manual at all 🤣
@@Eysenbeiss not true, I currently have a 6 speed automatic, it can be manually shifted but the thing will override your input readily.
Many automatics will not let you change down at high speed, they have centrifugal interlocks, a friend's car had the interlock removed and it was useful to be able to drop to 2nd at 80mph for overtaking, the car would not previously let you do it. Automatics with a torque converter are inefficient, hence later transmissions can lock up the converter while cruising. Automatic transmission suits this car but manual gives better control.
Driving manually is just more fun, simples!
Maybe long straight roads in the US may be another reason why automatics make more sense
converting the units: the prices named would be 1,898 $US per liter, or if you like your "freedom units", that´s 1,898$US per 0,264172 gallon, or (if i did my math right) 7,184 $US/gallon.
Also: the longer you drive manual, the less you have to actually think about it. You´ll naturally do it without even thinking "oh, i have to shift now", you just do it. So..... it sadly doesn´t prevent people from getting distracted...
with "red line" he most likely means "the red are of the RPM-meter", basically going close to the RPM-limit of the engine. which, if sustained for longer periods of time, or if the limiter is faulty, can cause damage to the engine
3:25 electric cars manual? whaaaat?
Ryan's the expert!
no you should not be able to drive a manual car with out learning how to drive one
In Europe, until recently, manual transmission cars had better mileage than their equivalent in automatic transmission. Also automatic version usually cost 1-2k€ more and might be repaired more frequently.
We still pass our Driver's licenses on manual cars because we consider that we can drive manual either automatic in the future.
From 2012, my personal car is an automatic but I am still driving manual cars when required. As example, low cost rented cars are only manual.
You "know ab embarrassingly small amount" about anything and everything -- although your twin Tyler somehow knows even less.
Don"t let Tyler fool you. He is a very good actor. I unsubscribed when I saw him in 3 different videos act all suprised to learn that the UK police do not carry guns. Ryan is much more geniune in his reactions.
I think he was saying "In the early noughties" as from the word "nought" meaning zero. So 2000-2009. Never heard that before either.
No, if you only drive automatic cars in the driving school in Germany and also take your driving test on an automatic car, you are NOT allowed to drive cars with a gearshift.
However, if you take your exam on a car with a gearshift, you are also allowed to drive automatic cars.
in the uk if you pass your driving test in a manual you can drive an auto, pass your test in an auto you can only drive an auto.
wanna get into landscape gardening? your goona need a van of some sort. you can get them in auto but you'll pay a premium.
gonna be courier driver/delivery driver? not many courier vans or delivery vans with auto's.
it just makes a lot more sence to pass on a manual.
Since a lot of the comments 'til now are about the price gas and the availability of automatic cars in the used markets (for newly licensed drivers to buy), I'll shoot at the questions you were making at the end of the video reading the comments, about rev. matching and clutch releasing after downshifting: since in a manual gearbox you have no computer "deciding" when you should change gear, it is up to you to choose the moment. But since the car is engineered in a certain way, it has certain "steps" between each gear (determined by the diameter of each geared coupling, which is also different for each gear change), which means that when you choose a shorter/longer gear, at a constant speed, you have a certain amount of revs' increase (downshifting) or decrease (upshifting). Since the engine has its independent torque and power curves (e.g. the same car can have different engine options, all to be coupled to the same transmission), there are specific moments when changing gear results in loosing a perfect amount of revs to catch the highest torque or power (depending if you need torque to pull a trailer or go uphill, or power to have better acceleration), or viceversa to loose the right amount of revs to still get torque or power, without falling on the red sector of the rev counter, where electronic limiters kick in spoiling the whole experience. Or the choice could be to look for the smoother gear change, which is generally at a different level.
About the aggressive downshifting of 2-3 gears at once, it goes on to exploit the so called engine brake, and if applied on a rear wheel drive car, coupled with the weight shifting towards the front axle during deceleration, it could cause the rear wheels to lock for a while, then to lose grip, and so helping a lot in creating oversteering and allowing for drifting around the roundabout when re-applying thrust even with just 100 HP available (no need for a big block HEMI engine, just saying).
Personally, I find frustrating when you select a gear in your robotized automatic car, and the computer simply does not obey because you are outside the suggested shifting profile: the car must do what I want, not the opposite. I'm the driver, not a passenger with a toy steering wheel in front of me. xD
I hope this could help!
(For the record, I am Italian and I have driven almost everything, from a 1986 Citroën 2cv (my first car) to Alfa Romeos (a 33 16v, an Alfetta 2000 and a GTV6), from Nissan (300ZX) to Land Rovers (LR2), all manuals. =D
If you're interested in more informations about manual transmission, have a look at them gomechanic.in/blog/manual-transmission-explained/
The CvT automatic gearbox is another fine Dutch invention!
Unfortunately they put it in a DAF car leading to the bad reputation of automatics.
My parents made me learn how to drive on a manual transmission car. I hated them for it at the time but now I’m very grateful.
A manual is more fun, but after I injured my left knee I switched to an automatic when I bought my next car. Holding the clutch down in slow moving traffic was a little painful.
When my mother had to get a new licence at 70 she was disappointed that it no longer allowed her to drive a tractor. Her father was a farmer and she learned to drive on a tractor.
14:46 - (they like to feel in controll of the car ) that's correct and after few weeks of driving manual you will controll it without any extra focus.
also since most cars in Europe are small without much power , it is better to have manual becose you will squeeze more out of it than automatic.
Like there are situations in small turns when you want to keep in second gear and high revs instead of third gear and low revs , and that's why you need that controll of the gears.
or if you are going to steep uphill the lower the gear the more torque you will have
4:02, loved that sign, like double explaining and then turned in to a single name 🤗❤️
For more than 20 years I've been driving manuals. I love them in certain situations that you need more control (like when you have to drive in a small village with narrow streets and really steep hills) but now that I own a Ford Escape (Kuga in Spain) PHEV auto... I also got used to auto transmissions and I like the CVT gearbox. In general since I live in a big city and often use highways, auto transmission made my life more comfortable and saving a lot of fuel (even when I run out of battery... I can get around 4 liters/100 km).
In Spain you can get your drivers license with an automatic car but you can't drive a manual unless you passed your test with a manual car. But if you passed your test with a manual you can drive an automatic without any legal issues.
But the future with electric cars means that only automatic cars will exist.
I'm from Finland and here's also lots of manual cars.
I have manual, wife have automatic, but sometimes she drives my car too and she have said that it's good that we have manual too, so you don't forget hoe to drive it and she handles it very well too.
I Finland if you drive your license with automatic you are not allowed to drive manual then.
I found converter, In here gas costs about 8 to 8,5$/gallon...
I LOVED my 6-speed manual Citroen DS3! Both my girls (now in their 30's) learned to drive manuals and can drive anything.
A Brazilian guy invented automatic transmission and sold it to ford. Most cars in Brazil are manual as well.
4:29 no, you can't do that in the EU
- If you pass your driver's license on a manual transmission, then you can drive all cars
- If you pass your driving test with an automatic transmission, you may only drive a car with an automatic transmission
I never in my life bought a new car. A lot of Europeans are big into second hand cars. Americans seem to like to afford the newest models, which often is an automatic. Buying a second hand manual is always magnitudes cheaper. At least that is how I see it.
I sometimes have the eco screen on in my little fiat 500, just to see how smooth my driving is. It’s difficult for me to understand how people can say ‘Why would anyone want to drive a manual?’ Where do we start? Having raced bikes competitively, you know exactly how changing gear manually makes driving more of an experience, not to say, a skill.
Your point about having a Camry with an auto in the U.S. being a good choice is more true in the U.S. however. We get the larger available engines here, whereas in Europe or Asia, that same Camry would probably have less than a 2 liter engine, and the U.S. models typically have the 3.0 to 3.5 liter V-6, or at least a 2.4 liter 4 cly. Europeans pay a huge tax on larger displacement engines, so most of their cars have 1.0 to 2.0 liter engines. Pair that with a traditional old-school automatic and it's sluggish at best, as well as consuming more fuel.
In our defense we are used to the 3 -pedal automatism , we don't even have to think about it , it's a reflex . Rev-matching makes you drive on ear , making you shift gears whenever the cars engine revs are in tune with a certain gear setting and you can hear a smooth acceleration up to the highest gear without overrevving it .A gradual and smooth engine sound ( and no howling ) is part of the mastery of clutch , gas pedal and gearbox.
Imagine that previous version of BMW M5 was available with manual transmission only for the US market.
Ryan - quote: "Bicyclist..!" (that made me smile). Although not wrong, in the UK we usually say 'cyclist' (that shows you just how rare the sight of an American riding a pedal bike really is...) LOL 😅 😂 🤣