Please red pill me on why cars are manual in the first place if Auto exists.
Auto v. Manual
Josiah Long
Jackson Morris
Because you used to save more gas with a manual. It's also feels a lot better driving a manual since you are having more of an impact with how the car drives and preforms when an auto does everything for you.
Noah Bailey
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Gavin Murphy
Cuz ur mom gay
Xavier Gonzalez
Strength, weight, fuel efficiency, ease of cooling, general simplicity.
Owen Stewart
>why cars are manual in the first place if Auto exists.
Because the earliest cars were manuals and manual cars historically performed better with manuals. Those two factors lead to technological superiority of the manual and kept it popular enough for manufacturers to keep offering them well into the 21st Century.
In more recent years however, the technology behind automatics has advanced greatly while the stick-shift manual development has been relatively stagnant for decades. Where manuals once had the advantage of faster shifts, better gas mileage, and better reliability, the gap is all but non-existent and in many cases automatics are superior in every objective measure. Also more powerful modern engines have started to showcase the limits of how much torque a friction clutch and conventional can actually take before consumer reliability becomes a concern. As such manufacturers have either started to use more heavy-duty (and heavy weight) gearboxes or forgone them entirely for an automatic.
Elijah Gray
>Also more powerful modern engines have started to showcase the limits of how much torque a friction clutch and conventional can actually take before consumer reliability becomes a concern
I disagree with a lot of your post but this one is the worst. What even makes you think this is remotely true when trucks are making over 2k lb/ft and will do hundreds of thousands of k's between clutch changes.
Adam Ramirez
What else would people with nothing else going for them use to elevate their status on a car subforum of a mongolian pottery painting BBS?
Anthony White
When you drive a gutless pos econobox, muh manual is the only way you can pretend to be an enthusiast
Angel Gomez
Because auto is boring.
You can talk about fuel economy, 'connection with the car', power loss/gains, weight, reliability ect. but in the end, auto will always be painfully fucking boring above anything else. Manual is much safer to drive due to this, unless you've got your foot to floor 24/7 you'll be falling asleep at the wheel and absolutely hate driving. Getting good smooth shifts is satisfying and keeps your mind focused on the car and on the road, even when you aren't going fast.