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And what car did you learn in?

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Submitted ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    1982 SAAB 900. No turbo, no sunroof. No frills. Still a fun car to drive

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  • Vupware@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I didn’t learn to drive in a vehicle with a clutch, but I did learn to drive vehicles with clutches! I love manual transmission cars. Been fighting the urge to make a poor financial decision and scoop one up before they’re gone.

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  • RattlerSix@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    When I was 15 in the 90s, every adult in the family, and adult friends of the family, said “You’re 15? Let’s go drive for an hour or two!” I’m pretty sure that, legally, a parent was supposed to be with me, but I guess any random adult was close enough.

    I just added up 14 different vehicles I “learned on,” including an old pickup with “three on the tree”, a Corvette, a 280z turbo, a 68 Chevelle, an International Scout. The rest were boring vehicles. If I remember correctly, 9 were manuals.

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  • ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Suzuki Samurai FTW

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  • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, these “let’s get people to reveal their password reset question” Facebook campaigns again…

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  • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Learned to drive on this bad boy:

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    Then my first car was this beauty:

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    It has hydrologic suspensions, it’s cool AF. Got it 10yo and 230000km and drove it until it died into a cloud of smoke 😢 RIP

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  • aarRJaay@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most people not in the US. We just call it ‘driving’

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s slowly starting to become a lost art though, there’s definitely more and more automatics around, starting with all electric cars.

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Automatics have clutches too, they are operated, as expected, automatic. A car without a clutch has just one gear.

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      • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Good

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every car has a clutch. Not all of them are manual.

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    • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most automatics use a torque converter instead of a clutch.

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      • DesolateMood@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Torque converters (at least nowadays) have a clutch

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    • WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My HEV Corolla does not

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Amazing shitpost.

    People really went directly to the manual vs automatic debate without realizing it has nothing to do with that.

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    • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Flying over my head. what does it have to do with?

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Evey car has a clutch, including automatic. It is so the engine can keep turning without the wheels spinning.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know if electric vehicles have one but other than them all cars have clutches, whether manual or automatic.

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    • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wet vs dry… Emmmmm

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  • toomanypancakes@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I learned to drive in a big ass truck, but I did recently get my first manual transmission car. It's not that hard to learn I don't think.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What is this, some kind of poll to get the average age of Lemmy?

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember when it was absurd to pay $10 for a banana.

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    • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a good way to get answers to Password Recovery questions that people forgot they used when signing up to some website or email service 15 years ago but are still active on

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everyone? How else are you going to change gear?

    I think a more interesting question would be:

    How many people learned to drive in a car with a manual Choke?

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    • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m currently learning to drive in a car without a clutch (an EV)

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Had a dirtbike with one, that counts right?

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    • wieson@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not me, but I learned to drive a 1967 tractor before driving a car, and you have to manually preheat the glowplug.

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    • gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had an old Series era Landrover as a paddock basher when I was a kid, that had a manual choke. It also had a backup crank handle for starting the engine which I had to use occasionally as I was using starter batteries which had been retired from usage in the family cars, a gearbox with no synchro on first/second, and the foot brake didn’t work. Would recommend, I definitely had fun.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep. Still have two stick cars. They’re not dead yet.

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  • Smeagol666@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My first car was a '73 VW Super Beetle.

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  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I learned on an automatic and didn’t know stick. Did that stop me from buying an old manual Mustang? Nope. I figured I had some practice with manual shifting in racing games (console), surely it couldn’t be that hard. I stalled plenty of times leaving the lot but once I got it going it was fine. It only really took a couple days of dropping clutch and stalling on hills before I had it down.

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    • nik9000@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I told the car salesdude that I’d buy this car if he spent 15 minutes teaching me. Worked out pretty well!

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  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    99% of people in my country…

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  • bunkyprewster@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mazda GLC

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  • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right. Most of you are from the US. Argentinian here, everybody drives manual. I even wanted to buy an automatic last time but my mechanic was like " Don’t even look at it. There is none in this city who can fix those. It might be a great value, but if it breaks, its done for"

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is still the standard way here. Automatic is something we still leave to those for who a gear is too complicated.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And EVs.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My grandfather had a rule for this kids, and my mom passed it down to me.

    You can’t have a license until you can:

    • Check and fill all the vehicle fluids
    • Perform an oil change
    • Change a tire
    • Drive a manual transmission
    • Change belts and hoses

    I learned on a stick. I even did some learning on my uncle’s beetle with a broken clutch (they were reasonable optional on the OG Bug). And I have not been behind of the wheel of one since. Still glad I learned all that stuff.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now, dismantle this car and put it back together, you have one hour!

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lot of people searching “clutch” right now

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    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      if we do our test on a manual we’re allowed to drive automatics too. But not the other way round. So i learned on a manual. I now drive an electric without any gears to switch, much less a clutch (but still have a classic mini too)

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Learned it from the beginning. It was my first car. Wanna say it was a late 80s or very early 90s really basic Ford Mustang that my aunt sold to my parents for me to use for like $200 bucks. I loved it, but not even a year later on my way to high school a van flying down the road rear ended me while I was trying to make a left turn waiting for traffic to clear… I haven’t had stick shift since.

    Here’s a pic of around what it looked like so you can see it was a very basic car back then or this model was super basic haha.

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  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1979 Datsun 210. Eventually sold the thing for five cartons of cigarettes.

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    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I owned the B-210 Honey Bee. Great car, zippy.

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  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My first two cars were manuals, and I enjoy manuals (drive an EV now so no choice there) but this post reeks of acting like doing so makes us special. It doesn’t. We just learned a different skill, and almost anyone can learn it if they chose to and especially if they enjoy it.

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  • Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Driving stick is still the norm here. Learned it in a Suzuki Swift, which did not do honour to its name.

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  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    European here, learned in a Toyota Yaris

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  • supermurs@kbin.earth ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was a first generation Ford Focus hatchback.

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  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Since the question is ‘vehicle’: Massey-Ferguson 165. Or if you insist a car: Opel Kadett C.

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  • zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Learnt in a ford mondeo, some early 2000s model.

    Still got a manual as my daily driver.

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