Do automakers want the manual trans to die?

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

So I stop at the clinic to pick up a prescription for my elderly neighbor. I decide to get a bite to eat while I’m there .. so I pull in to Free Valet Parking. It’s available so why not use it?

After about twenty minutes I’m leaving the building and when I scan my Valet ticket .. the card scanner reader says .. “no vehicle found.”

I head outside and there sits my vehicle exactly where I left it in the drop-off-zone .. valet guy said your ticket didn’t scan because we never moved it or parked it. I had to ask why.

His answer was that no one working there this morning knew how to drive a clutch. A clutch? .. oh, you mean a manual stick.
Yes, he said, “we don’t get those kind here hardly ever and today no one here drives that kind.”

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

Lol is weird to find automatic ones in Europe.

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[Freeman_KParticipant 3524]

Idea is basically that you will wake up in the morning, pay value added tax when making coffee for yourself directly through integrated chip with 360 degree camera installed and then sit in the autonomous vehicle to drive you to work. Control level 100%, freedom level 0%.

The choices we make, not the chances we take, determine our destiny

[Anonymous 42]

LOL! I’d like to take them for a ride in my classic powered by a hopped 401cid, Borg Warner T-10 4 speed, Hurst comp+, 11 1/4″ clutch, pushing a 12 bolt 4/11 Dana Posi.

Don’t wear the seat belts so I can play ping pong with their bodies off the dash banging through the gears!

So much FUN!

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

I want this baby.
No computers no bulls~~~.

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

Any other old style 4×4 adviced?

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

It’s true! My car is a stick, and I heard (from a car professional ) less than 4% of drivers know how to drive manual transmission. Most people don’t even understand the concept of “gears” or “gearing down”. It really surprised me too.

( At least I don’t need to worry about it being stolen. )

You DRIVE a stick.
You RIDE an automatic.

Big difference.

Do automakers want the manual trans to die?

Cars are less like “cars” now and more like an iPad with wheels. A friend just bought a new Jeep SUV this thing will help you park, and apply the brakes if IT thinks you’re too close. It *beeps* and alerts him every few seconds. Please just kill me now.

They want cars to be more like WOMEN want cars to be. As lazy as possible. And self-driving? One day you get in, all four doors lock and it takes you straight to the police station to book you for misgendering a dog.

Wait for it.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[GrumpyParticipant]

Between the automakers and in insurance companies I’d say yes they do.
No skill is required to slap a vehicle into drive and aim it down a road trying to keep it in some kind of line.

There was a time in my life when I gave a fuck. Now you have to pay ME for it

[SamsquanchParticipant 4226]

The automakers do because an automatic trans costs more money. Not the insurance companies though, they’re having a difficult time making money on auto insurance. Not defending the asshat insurance companies that have billions in assets, but they want cars to be as cheap as possible.

Everyone in my family can drive a manual, my 06 Cobalt was a manual. I don’t miss having to shift gears though

[Freeman_KParticipant 3524]

Keymaster wrote:

eep SUV this thing will help you park, and apply the brakes if IT thinks you’re too close

Or maybe if you are Michael Hastings.

Seriously though, when i was a kid i was reading dystopian novels about society without privacy or freedoms. Where world is going nowadays freedoms or privacy are long gone for almost all people and driving force behind this are women.

The choices we make, not the chances we take, determine our destiny

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

I repeat…
House up in mountain, my own water supply, solar panels, Toyota bj40…
Where can I get a Winchester 1894?

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[AutoliteParticipant]

Do automakers want the manual trans to die?

Yes, North American auto makers are no longer producing manual transmission cars and trucks any more. Not in any great quantity anyway. I’ve notice this trend a few years ago.

Making it worse, The Turdeau Liberals in Canada, in 2018, will be banning the importation of products made with asbestos. It means that clutches and brakes for the older vehicles will have to be custom made in specialty shops using non-asbestos substitute materials…

[WPLParticipant 2390]

A little bit ironic, considering how much asbestos Canada used to mine and export…

Autolite wrote:

Do automakers want the manual trans to die?

Yes, North American auto makers are no longer producing manual transmission cars and trucks any more. Not in any great quantity anyway. I’ve notice this trend a few years ago.

Making it worse, The Turdeau Liberals in Canada, in 2018, will be banning the importation of products made with asbestos. It means that clutches and brakes for the older vehicle will have to be custom made in specialty shops using non-asbestos substitute material…

[AutoliteParticipant]

WPL wrote:

A little bit ironic, considering how much asbestos Canada used to mine and export…

Even more ironic is the banning of asbestos because of the potential health risk but promoting and legalizing marijuana usage. I’m guessing there are considerably plenty more folks in Canada illegally smoking weed now than snorting ground asbestos dust…

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

Freeman_K wrote:

Idea is basically that you will wake up in the morning, pay value added tax when making coffee for yourself directly through integrated chip with 360 degree camera installed and then sit in the autonomous vehicle to drive you to work. Control level 100%, freedom level 0%.

The way things are go, with nationalism on the rise across the world these globalist companies will many themselves being plump chickens in a hen-house full of starving wolves.

Car sales across the board are tanking. People do not want this “self-drive” s~~~. The only reason Tesla has remained in business is because that company has Obama to funnel taxpayer money into it. Now with President Trump, Tesla has been cut off from taxpayer money.

Car companies keep wanting to given faulty loans to people whom cannot afford the loans, while they pile unsold cars in loans so large it looks like a sea of cars.

The car companies refuse to do the one thing they need to do to stay in business. Lower the price of the vehicles they are selling.

[Anonymous 54]

My favorite is slamin the T10 from 2nd th 3rd.

Churp!

[Anonymous 42]

I’m betting they don’t even know the dos and don’t in operating an automatic.

My Cushman Trucksters have 3 speeds with 2 speed rear ends. Trucks have splits too or hi lo range. I wonder how bad they’d do operating my 4X4 hi-lo and if they even had any idea how to engage the locking rear differential?

Grind grind grind grind, chirp-stall, grind grind grind.

You’re right KM, I never thought about it, these monyounze wouldn’t know how to steal it!

I guess that’s why airplanes are so easy to steal, different caliper of people all together! Totally f~~~ing idiot proof! Too many dials, gauges, buttons, and levers!

[Anonymous 1]

One year till my lease is up then I’m buying my Toyota 4×4 with a stick.

At least You can turn off the traction control on that thing. Stuck with abs though.

[MorpheusParticipant 2177]

Is it possible to have something like a 700hp car with an automatic and no paddle shifters? The car would go nuts with the slightest touch.

[Anonymous 14]

The only two reasons to buy an automatic are if you have a bad left knee or a bad left hip.

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