So regarding hill starts, they are not that hard. You use the handbrake so you're stopped, put the car in 1st, bring up the clutch and accelerator to the bite point and away you go. No rolling. Easy as tits.
Yes, if I REALLY loved the car. I taught my H and my mother to drive manual. However, my father's sport cars have always been manual. Their first year of marriage he tried to teach my mom to drive stick. She rolled backwards down a hill into another car. That was the last time she drove stick until a few years ago when I insisted on teaching her. She just doesn't enjoy driving a manual, that's ok. (To be noted: she buys whatever car she wants for herself and normally spends more than my Dad on cars)
I love manual transmission. DH doesn't know how to drive one, but he said he's be willing to learn if we bought one.
However, the idea of teaching my DH sounds like no fun at all.
See my story above. It was fine for H and I. For my parents it almost destroyed their marriage (by their own admission). (My only advice is avoid hills when teaching!)
It depends. If the one who couldn't drive it was willing to learn, and thought they'd be comfortable driving it afterwards, then yes. If they had no intention of learning, then no.
Yes. I'm appalled by how many people in here don't know how to.
I agree that it's a good skill to have but I don't think it's shocking if someone doesn't know how. I know more people IRL who can't drive stick than who can.
That said, I drive a stick and H has an automatic. Whenever I drive his, it takes me a few minutes to stop stomping on the gd brake thinking it's the clutch. Haha. I hate automatics- I don't feel in control and I have to concentrate really hard on keeping my left foot inactive. Lol.
H and I won't buy a manual car because I can't drive them. Like am physically unable to do so. Drat the non working left hand & arm. Also H hasn't driven a manual transmission in many years and has forgotten how.
Personally, I can't imagine it for us. But mostly because we currently don't have a car, so I can't imagine our only car being one that we both can't drive. If we both had cars, I could see there might be a scenario in which we got a car that only one of us was able to drive.
But also, neither of us know how to drive stick. My mom tried to teach me once, but be both got too frustrated too fast. At the moment, neither H nor I have the opportunity to learn, but would both like to.
We have a manual Jeep and I don't know how to drive it. I've been "meaning to learn" for a while. Now I don't even care, he has all these offroad add-ons and I don't even want to drive it.
That said, I drive a stick and H has an automatic. Whenever I drive his, it takes me a few minutes to stop stomping on the gd brake thinking it's the clutch. Haha. I hate automatics- I don't feel in control and I have to concentrate really hard on keeping my left foot inactive. Lol.
This is totally me except it is with anyone else's car. H and I both have manuals. I have to say I am honestly surprised how many people on this board know how to drive one. No one I know in real life can.
So regarding hill starts, they are not that hard. You use the handbrake so you're stopped, put the car in 1st, bring up the clutch and accelerator to the bite point and away you go. No rolling. Easy as tits.
Sometimes it depends on the car. I always had trouble with hills on my first car, and just chalked it up to being bad at a driving a stick. The next car(s) I drove I was AMAZED at how much easier it was to get it into gear, especially on hills.
Also, it had a bad fuel pump, so sometimes when it stalled it wouldn't start again for 10-20 seconds. Yay for shitty first cars. lol.
My first car my dad bought for me as a present. It had no power steering and the worst 5th gear ever. Like I would be going down the motorway ramp, and blammo I would go from 4th into 2nd. I learned a LOT from that car ahaha
I bought my car a year and a half ago, and I specifically wanted a stick after driving H's automatic for the two years we shared a vehicle. I learned how to drive on a manual, and I agree on all the PPs' previous points; it's fun, and you have so much more control.
Although it does suck when you take your friends out of town to party for the night, and someone else agrees to drive back, but they don't tell you until after you're already shitcanned that they don't know how to drive a stick. Glad my clutch is super forgiving and the drive was almost all highway.
DH did to know how to drive a stick, but he found his dream car, in his budget, when we were car shopping last year. It was a stick, and he bought it anyway. It only took him a day to learn.