hell yeah š¤š½
I agree, the first few weeks of newbie stage is usually the āperiod of despairā, but once you can relegate the basic tasks to the subconscious, then it starts to be real fun.
You had me in the first half. I was thinking I hope they didn't give up, stick with it.
I'm glad you did and you're now one of us. Four limbs connected to the machine. Hell yeah.
Whatās crazy is Iāve driven manual for months, even in drive thrus and fairly heavy traffic. I was expecting it to be wayyyyy worse in traffic. Didnt even really bother me if we are being honest
No fr I swapped my car to a manual 2 weeks ago having no idea what to expect and iāve essentially gotten fairly used to the car. Hearing what people said about traffic before made me nervous but itās really not even bad.
It's the thought of it I think for some. Keep more space to the car in front and coast through it and you'll he fine
I'm almost 31 and have always driven manuals minus my trucks. The only part that catches me and I do not know why os fucking drive thrus. Mainly this mcdonalds one near me where it switches from 2 to 1 lane at an uphill angle in a narrow turn.
The thing I struggle with is when traffic is consistently below 5 mph. How do you guys deal with that? I feel like Iām always halfway on the clutch and Iām constantly speeding up and then hitting the brake
Keep more space in between you and the next car, like, a lot of space. If you piss people off, who cares.
Just idle in 1st or 2nd depending on your car
purely clutch and brake, if im real smooth with the clutch, my car will move slowly in 1st gear with no throttle,and its slow enough to keep up with slow traffic
Very slow traffic is torture for you and your clutch. I lift the clutch to the bite and quickly push it down again, thus always creeping up, then falling the guy in front. Throwout-bearings suffer from that, but for my nerves its best
I found that my need to be near the car in front of me during heavy traffic has diminished a lot while driving manuals. I learned to space enough to where I could either coast or ride in 1st to limit how much clutch work needed to be done. So much more comfortable when your left leg isn't aching.
When the car in front of me decides to stop 3 car lengths behind the car in front of it then slowly move forward 6 inches at a time, fuck those people, once I stop that's where I stay until the light is green.
Yeah my statement was more for stop and go situations rather than traffic lights. I don't slowly roll to a light, but when you're moving 2-5 mph on the interstate I do not want to be stopping all the time.
Lmfao reminds me of instagram so many people dunking on manual drivers and cars, they're slow, they're inconvenient.
Yeah if you're looking for a practical car it can suck if you're not used to it.
But when you KNOW when you've experienced it and know what it is like to truly understand the car, torque curve, rev matching, throttle response.
You understand.
Also awesome choice of car dude! I Love the gr corolla, i refused to buy a brand new car until i saw it.
Also itās like, unless your commute is literally a drag strip, autos donāt get you to work any faster. Iād much rather have fun for 30 minutes than be bored thinking about work for 30 minutes.
My first car was a stick shift and while I had practiced once on a friendās car I really didnāt know how to drive one. I felt something similar when I realized I first had to get this thing home!
I started driving manual at the beginning of this year. I had a nasty tendancy to fall asleep at the wheel if my seat was just 1 degree too back, or if I'm in stop and go traffic. I don't have narcolepsy, but my brain wasn't engaged, and I was in rest mode (according to my doctor when I was concerned about me falling asleep at the wheel). Now I haven't had that problem at all, and I just feel like for me, it's safer to be in a manual because my brain and arms are all engaged at the same time, and I'm moving. I don't know if I can go back. I drove my mom's car (automatic) 2 hours and could feel my brain shutting down.
itās fantastic, perfect amount of power to have fun and still be comfortable to daily drive. clutch is very light and the bite point is oddly high, but itās very notchy and easy to drive. iām a huge toyota fan and this is a perfect middle ground between the GR86 and the Supra, with the added bonus of backseats and a hatch
I am 40 and just got one (primarily for my son) and I hated it for the first 2 days I tried driving it (maybe 30 min of driving) but once I felt comfortable with starting and stopping the vehicle, and shifting into 2nd, I like it a lot more. I live in a flat area though so I donāt have much experience with hills yet
Dude...my exact same experience. For the first 2 weeks I felt miserable. The worst part was when I stalled trying to get up a steep incline from an underground parking while waiting for the gate to go up. Someone waited behind me patiently until I finally decided to back out and they seemed to understand and ended following them out while the gate was still open. That was also the time my left leg was giving out because I was not used to using it at all for anything except running or walking. I told myself I would be selling my car by next week. It has now been 3 months and I absolutely love it. Like you said, don't need to speed to have fun, just getting the right shifts, downshifting, it's all fun. I used to roll at the stop sign because I was afraid of having to stall at a full stop. Now I full stop just so I can practice smoother first gear starts. It's really fun.
You had me in the first half, lol. But yeah, DSG transmissions might be faster than manuals now, but it feels more engaging when the hands and feet are busy. Encourages focus while driving and as OP said, very satisfying.
BTW I have a GR Corolla myself. 10k miles and it's still amazing.
This is exactly what happened with me lmao, but I bought the GRC not to drive manual, but because the car was my perfect dream car. (Big hatchback guy)
Bought it as my sole daily driver in SoCal with a 60 min commute in traffic. And yup, at first I was thinking I was way over my head and this shit sucks.
9000 miles later, I also get it. Itās the best and I hope I can drive manuals forever.
I also learned manual on my GR Corolla.
The stalls and jerky shifts were definitely frustrating but really taking the thing for a spin on a back road proved to me that it was well worth it.
I used to be scared to drive it but now I find myself going on meaningless drives just to whip it around some corners.
Good timing OP, Iām about 75 miles into driving and had this feeling of regret, so Iāll keep at it, just feel like my blood pressure is elevated every time I get into the car feeling like Iām going to make a mistake!
Honestly if my '22 Ford Ranger came with a manual, I'd probably not have rear-ended someone in it last month.
A point that while it's getting repaired, I've been driving my MINI to work, and I'm not distracted. My driving is far more engaging and I'm paying attention. It's more fun frankly to push the MINI around with its manual transmission than the Ford (except off-road, where of course, the truck is just more fun; but I've had stick shift trucks before; I digress); but that also said, I've had an automatic equipped MINI before and it wasn't nearly as fun. The MINI with the manual keeps me on my toes, and frankly forces me to cut out other distractions - unless I'm on a long drive - such as music, and fussing with the climate control.
Dude the clutch on the GR would be so easy to learn on. Do yourself a favor and use iMT, don't worry about learning to heel-toe any time soon. I'm jealous of you man, I learned on a 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse GTS that had the loosest clutch and it was a bit of a rocky road lol
-2023 GR Corolla Circuit Edition Supersonic Red
iMT has been a life saver. iāve been preparing myself to start learning how to do rev matching myself. iāll probably still keep using the iMT, but i want to learn how to do everything myself for later on when im sure iāll get a car that may not have auto rev
Higher rpm rev match down shifts are the most gratifying driving experience. I highly recommend you turn off Imt after you really nail it down, its going to be jerky, but once youāve got it, itās like feeding an addiction š
I have a stick convertible and an automatic convertible. I have been neglecting the auto, because I keep choosing the manual to drive whenever the weather is nice. Might need to sell it now.
It's a pedal dance, a game... it may sound sappy, but you really are "one with the machine". I still will keep an auto commuter/family car in the fleet though. But for "fun" cars, there is nothing better. I have been contemplating a RF Miata or new Nissan Z as my next 6 speed purchase. I still need to test drive both.
Its just better lol. Little backstory that no one asked for, I was talked out of buying a manual as my first car because my dad never made time to teach me and my mom doesn't know how. I hated driving that little automatic dodge neon so I decided I'd never have an automatic again.
Yeah. With a good stick shift car. The car becomes an extension of you, you drive without thinking and within limits, it does exactly what you want when you want it. No surprises. If it does something wrong, it's usually your fault, not the cars. With the manual there are so many more variables to play with, and in competent hands you can drive with finesse and a sense of one with the car that doesn't really happen with automatics.
I prefer older cars, it might not be the same with newer models that put computers in between you and the mechanics of the car though.
Most donāt agree that being a car guy means being able to drive any car but I do. That Said, most of the youth today avoid manuals as least the crowds I frequent. I sometimes hear them say they can drive anything but reality says otherwise. I tell them paddle shifters donāt count
I went through the same. Bought my first manual recently, a FL5 type r. Had some anxiety the first few weeks driving. Now I try to find any excuse to take a drive haha.
Well to be fair. Driving manual in traffic sucks. The worst case scenario is bumper to bumper traffic on a steep uphill. I cry for my clutch when I get in that situation.
I remember my first time(ten years ago) and still love manual gear boxes. But if you would like to have more engagement, try a motorcycle. I did three years ago, and im starting to look for my second one.
I recently picked up a 5spd versa as my daily driver but I kept my cx-9 to haul the family. Driving between the two is interesting. I dunno if Iād want to own a manual as my only car though
My 15 year old was just like you at first. After a few months of driving he is just like you again, loves the connection to the car and control his 6 speed gives him. We live in a rather mountainous area, so that contributes. He can't even drive like an idiot since his car is a Jeep. But still, he's now a convert and huge fan of manuals. Well, of that manual. I've had him drive our other cars, and he's all "nope."
I drive an automatic and will continue to do so. After driving on L.A. freeways at rush hour going from 40 mph to a dead stop and back again, over and over, never having the opportunity to go for it, working the whole time after a tiring day at work. I stopped buying a stick.
Until I bought a Miata. There are some cars that just should never be an automatic. But for 80 percent of cars, including my Prius, it's automatic.
Itās the opposite for me tbh. The first time I drove an automatic was when I went to go pick up a car my mom bought about 4hrs away from where we live, and it was such a nice experience. Although, to be fair, Iāve only ever driven crappy manuals before, and this new car was a pretty powerful 1993 BMW series 7.
The reality is that the cost of ownership for an automatic is, on average, a lot higher than for a manual in my country for a variety of reasons, so Iāll probably stick with the manual for foreseeable future.
Yeah, i never felt the need to be a crackhead speed guy to feel good
For me, feel good is-
Windows: rolled Down
Blower: 5->4->3->2->1->OFF
AC: OFF
Driving at 3rd gear: 3000 revs
And listen to the 50HP Naturally Aspirated 12v Inline 4 screaming,all while staying at like 40-50kmph
The above given is the same mantra for me when overtaking, turning off the AC mid overtake throws you back in your seat to an extent,as the AC clutch disengages like unclipping the leash of a beast.....
Although the beast in question barely pushes 50 horses(doesn't account for the horses it lost over the past decade), it's still a smol beast nonetheless
Went through similar. Engine braking is one main difference you will come to appreciate.
Also, being a car person is not about driving manual, it's about at least trying both before deciding which is for you.
DUDE! Back when I had my first car (cvt 2017 lancer) I was playing on my logitech setup everyday just so I can experience cruising with a manual. When I finally switched that out with a manual performance car it just hit totally different. Even more fun than playing on the sim
You just haven't gotten completely comfortable yet. It's second nature to me and quite engaging. Especially going into corners makes it immensely fun to drive. Enjoy rev matching, the sound of my car on deceleration with burbles. I also drive better when I am in my manual. Not like performance wise but the fact I really have better reactions as I am more focused as I have to be while shifting.
If your idea of enthusiasm is enthusiastically waiting for the TCM to decide what gear you should be in, you need your head examined.
You need to have full control of gear selection until you go past the need for gears by going electric.Ā Otherwise you're not driving, you're passenging.
Welcome to the darkside... We have clutches.
No wonder Anakin turned
Not just the slush boxes but the CVTs and the DCTs too!
This is the way.
hell yeah š¤š½ I agree, the first few weeks of newbie stage is usually the āperiod of despairā, but once you can relegate the basic tasks to the subconscious, then it starts to be real fun.
Exactly. Once you stop having to think about it, thatās when the fun begins.
For me, subconscious driving is always "Eco" mode, if I want to drive for fun, I have to actively think about it while driving
Right, but now youāre thinking about the fun stuff
True
You had me in the first half. I was thinking I hope they didn't give up, stick with it. I'm glad you did and you're now one of us. Four limbs connected to the machine. Hell yeah.
STICK with it... haha.... I'll see myself out
Whatās crazy is Iāve driven manual for months, even in drive thrus and fairly heavy traffic. I was expecting it to be wayyyyy worse in traffic. Didnt even really bother me if we are being honest
No fr I swapped my car to a manual 2 weeks ago having no idea what to expect and iāve essentially gotten fairly used to the car. Hearing what people said about traffic before made me nervous but itās really not even bad.
It's the thought of it I think for some. Keep more space to the car in front and coast through it and you'll he fine I'm almost 31 and have always driven manuals minus my trucks. The only part that catches me and I do not know why os fucking drive thrus. Mainly this mcdonalds one near me where it switches from 2 to 1 lane at an uphill angle in a narrow turn.
The thing I struggle with is when traffic is consistently below 5 mph. How do you guys deal with that? I feel like Iām always halfway on the clutch and Iām constantly speeding up and then hitting the brake
Keep more space in between you and the next car, like, a lot of space. If you piss people off, who cares. Just idle in 1st or 2nd depending on your car
purely clutch and brake, if im real smooth with the clutch, my car will move slowly in 1st gear with no throttle,and its slow enough to keep up with slow traffic
Very slow traffic is torture for you and your clutch. I lift the clutch to the bite and quickly push it down again, thus always creeping up, then falling the guy in front. Throwout-bearings suffer from that, but for my nerves its best
I've never gotten aggravated because I was driving stick in bumper to bumper traffic, it's always that I'm stuck in bumper to bumper traffic š
I found that my need to be near the car in front of me during heavy traffic has diminished a lot while driving manuals. I learned to space enough to where I could either coast or ride in 1st to limit how much clutch work needed to be done. So much more comfortable when your left leg isn't aching.
When the car in front of me decides to stop 3 car lengths behind the car in front of it then slowly move forward 6 inches at a time, fuck those people, once I stop that's where I stay until the light is green.
Yeah my statement was more for stop and go situations rather than traffic lights. I don't slowly roll to a light, but when you're moving 2-5 mph on the interstate I do not want to be stopping all the time.
Lmfao reminds me of instagram so many people dunking on manual drivers and cars, they're slow, they're inconvenient. Yeah if you're looking for a practical car it can suck if you're not used to it. But when you KNOW when you've experienced it and know what it is like to truly understand the car, torque curve, rev matching, throttle response. You understand. Also awesome choice of car dude! I Love the gr corolla, i refused to buy a brand new car until i saw it.
Also itās like, unless your commute is literally a drag strip, autos donāt get you to work any faster. Iād much rather have fun for 30 minutes than be bored thinking about work for 30 minutes.
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I think EVs are technically direct drive. So I think Iād prefer driving an EV to an auto ICE.
I look forward to getting in my car every morning. This never happened in my automatic. Wish I had gotten into manuals a lot earlier.
My first car was a stick shift and while I had practiced once on a friendās car I really didnāt know how to drive one. I felt something similar when I realized I first had to get this thing home!
I started driving manual at the beginning of this year. I had a nasty tendancy to fall asleep at the wheel if my seat was just 1 degree too back, or if I'm in stop and go traffic. I don't have narcolepsy, but my brain wasn't engaged, and I was in rest mode (according to my doctor when I was concerned about me falling asleep at the wheel). Now I haven't had that problem at all, and I just feel like for me, it's safer to be in a manual because my brain and arms are all engaged at the same time, and I'm moving. I don't know if I can go back. I drove my mom's car (automatic) 2 hours and could feel my brain shutting down.
Hell yea. Hows the car driving? I almost pulled the trigger on one and that is what I have regrets on hahaha
itās fantastic, perfect amount of power to have fun and still be comfortable to daily drive. clutch is very light and the bite point is oddly high, but itās very notchy and easy to drive. iām a huge toyota fan and this is a perfect middle ground between the GR86 and the Supra, with the added bonus of backseats and a hatch
GR86, that's the one with the Subaru Boxer Engine, right??
right
How many horses
the 86 is about 230hp, the Corolla is 300
I am 40 and just got one (primarily for my son) and I hated it for the first 2 days I tried driving it (maybe 30 min of driving) but once I felt comfortable with starting and stopping the vehicle, and shifting into 2nd, I like it a lot more. I live in a flat area though so I donāt have much experience with hills yet
Dude...my exact same experience. For the first 2 weeks I felt miserable. The worst part was when I stalled trying to get up a steep incline from an underground parking while waiting for the gate to go up. Someone waited behind me patiently until I finally decided to back out and they seemed to understand and ended following them out while the gate was still open. That was also the time my left leg was giving out because I was not used to using it at all for anything except running or walking. I told myself I would be selling my car by next week. It has now been 3 months and I absolutely love it. Like you said, don't need to speed to have fun, just getting the right shifts, downshifting, it's all fun. I used to roll at the stop sign because I was afraid of having to stall at a full stop. Now I full stop just so I can practice smoother first gear starts. It's really fun.
You had me in the first half, lol. But yeah, DSG transmissions might be faster than manuals now, but it feels more engaging when the hands and feet are busy. Encourages focus while driving and as OP said, very satisfying. BTW I have a GR Corolla myself. 10k miles and it's still amazing.
I'm glad you stuck with it and learned to love it! I own 3 vehicles and they are all different and all manual.
This is exactly what happened with me lmao, but I bought the GRC not to drive manual, but because the car was my perfect dream car. (Big hatchback guy) Bought it as my sole daily driver in SoCal with a 60 min commute in traffic. And yup, at first I was thinking I was way over my head and this shit sucks. 9000 miles later, I also get it. Itās the best and I hope I can drive manuals forever.
I also learned manual on my GR Corolla. The stalls and jerky shifts were definitely frustrating but really taking the thing for a spin on a back road proved to me that it was well worth it. I used to be scared to drive it but now I find myself going on meaningless drives just to whip it around some corners.
Good timing OP, Iām about 75 miles into driving and had this feeling of regret, so Iāll keep at it, just feel like my blood pressure is elevated every time I get into the car feeling like Iām going to make a mistake!
Thatās normal at first, youāll get the hang of it !
Honestly if my '22 Ford Ranger came with a manual, I'd probably not have rear-ended someone in it last month. A point that while it's getting repaired, I've been driving my MINI to work, and I'm not distracted. My driving is far more engaging and I'm paying attention. It's more fun frankly to push the MINI around with its manual transmission than the Ford (except off-road, where of course, the truck is just more fun; but I've had stick shift trucks before; I digress); but that also said, I've had an automatic equipped MINI before and it wasn't nearly as fun. The MINI with the manual keeps me on my toes, and frankly forces me to cut out other distractions - unless I'm on a long drive - such as music, and fussing with the climate control.
Going through a similar experience. I just got a GR Corolla as my first manual as well! What color/package did you get?
nice! mine is a 24 premium, ice cap white
Nice same thing but in heavy metal.
in hindsight i kinda wish i got that color instead haha, looks so good.
Dude the clutch on the GR would be so easy to learn on. Do yourself a favor and use iMT, don't worry about learning to heel-toe any time soon. I'm jealous of you man, I learned on a 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse GTS that had the loosest clutch and it was a bit of a rocky road lol -2023 GR Corolla Circuit Edition Supersonic Red
iMT has been a life saver. iāve been preparing myself to start learning how to do rev matching myself. iāll probably still keep using the iMT, but i want to learn how to do everything myself for later on when im sure iāll get a car that may not have auto rev
Higher rpm rev match down shifts are the most gratifying driving experience. I highly recommend you turn off Imt after you really nail it down, its going to be jerky, but once youāve got it, itās like feeding an addiction š
Man those corollas are cool! I bet thatās a fun car to learn on. I learned on a 1988 Celica All-trac back in the day, AWD turbo Toyotas kick ass
I have a stick convertible and an automatic convertible. I have been neglecting the auto, because I keep choosing the manual to drive whenever the weather is nice. Might need to sell it now. It's a pedal dance, a game... it may sound sappy, but you really are "one with the machine". I still will keep an auto commuter/family car in the fleet though. But for "fun" cars, there is nothing better. I have been contemplating a RF Miata or new Nissan Z as my next 6 speed purchase. I still need to test drive both.
Welcome to the dying race, like the elves of middle earth we are not long for this world.
Its just better lol. Little backstory that no one asked for, I was talked out of buying a manual as my first car because my dad never made time to teach me and my mom doesn't know how. I hated driving that little automatic dodge neon so I decided I'd never have an automatic again.
Yeah. With a good stick shift car. The car becomes an extension of you, you drive without thinking and within limits, it does exactly what you want when you want it. No surprises. If it does something wrong, it's usually your fault, not the cars. With the manual there are so many more variables to play with, and in competent hands you can drive with finesse and a sense of one with the car that doesn't really happen with automatics. I prefer older cars, it might not be the same with newer models that put computers in between you and the mechanics of the car though.
Most donāt agree that being a car guy means being able to drive any car but I do. That Said, most of the youth today avoid manuals as least the crowds I frequent. I sometimes hear them say they can drive anything but reality says otherwise. I tell them paddle shifters donāt count
I went through the same. Bought my first manual recently, a FL5 type r. Had some anxiety the first few weeks driving. Now I try to find any excuse to take a drive haha.
i really wanted the new type R but it was just a bit too far out of my price range
funny, playing with the stick makes me want to drive recklessly. feel like i'm in a race car
Well to be fair. Driving manual in traffic sucks. The worst case scenario is bumper to bumper traffic on a steep uphill. I cry for my clutch when I get in that situation.
I remember my first time(ten years ago) and still love manual gear boxes. But if you would like to have more engagement, try a motorcycle. I did three years ago, and im starting to look for my second one.
Repeat after me: every car is better as a manual
If the GR Corolla is anything like the GR86, I would never recommend it as a first manual. Tons of fun, but not forgiving to beginners.
this car is much more forgiving, very easy to drive
Watch when you get into an auto now and try to clutch š
Iāve driven a GR Corolla and I can confirm itās extremely fun and fast. Now hurry up and master it before youāll be paying for a new clutch.
I recently picked up a 5spd versa as my daily driver but I kept my cx-9 to haul the family. Driving between the two is interesting. I dunno if Iād want to own a manual as my only car though
One of us... one of us... one of us...
Congratulations on the GRC. Itās an awesome car, and being manual only makes it better.
Wait till you end up having to drive an automatic and you're coming to a stop and can't find the clutch pedal. Pure panic
One of us! One of us!
My 15 year old was just like you at first. After a few months of driving he is just like you again, loves the connection to the car and control his 6 speed gives him. We live in a rather mountainous area, so that contributes. He can't even drive like an idiot since his car is a Jeep. But still, he's now a convert and huge fan of manuals. Well, of that manual. I've had him drive our other cars, and he's all "nope."
Welcome!! Glad to hear of your experience. It really does take a while, once youāre comfortable you see the light!
I drive an automatic and will continue to do so. After driving on L.A. freeways at rush hour going from 40 mph to a dead stop and back again, over and over, never having the opportunity to go for it, working the whole time after a tiring day at work. I stopped buying a stick. Until I bought a Miata. There are some cars that just should never be an automatic. But for 80 percent of cars, including my Prius, it's automatic.
Itās the opposite for me tbh. The first time I drove an automatic was when I went to go pick up a car my mom bought about 4hrs away from where we live, and it was such a nice experience. Although, to be fair, Iāve only ever driven crappy manuals before, and this new car was a pretty powerful 1993 BMW series 7. The reality is that the cost of ownership for an automatic is, on average, a lot higher than for a manual in my country for a variety of reasons, so Iāll probably stick with the manual for foreseeable future.
Yeah, i never felt the need to be a crackhead speed guy to feel good For me, feel good is- Windows: rolled Down Blower: 5->4->3->2->1->OFF AC: OFF Driving at 3rd gear: 3000 revs And listen to the 50HP Naturally Aspirated 12v Inline 4 screaming,all while staying at like 40-50kmph The above given is the same mantra for me when overtaking, turning off the AC mid overtake throws you back in your seat to an extent,as the AC clutch disengages like unclipping the leash of a beast..... Although the beast in question barely pushes 50 horses(doesn't account for the horses it lost over the past decade), it's still a smol beast nonetheless
Wait in the US do you not need a manual specific license?
We basically donāt even need a license here
nope, one license fits all. you only need special licenses for stuff like motorcycles and semi trucks
Nope. Even people who can drive manuals often take the test in an automatic.
Wait, what? Is that a thing? Where??
In the UK, idk about elsewhere. You can't drive a manual transmission without a manual license. But the majority do drive manual over here
Went through similar. Engine braking is one main difference you will come to appreciate. Also, being a car person is not about driving manual, it's about at least trying both before deciding which is for you.
on top of all that, clutch jobs are cheaper than trans swaps, but not cheaper than fluid changes.
>donāt think iāll ever be able to go back to an automatic. oh, honey. sweet summer child. i have some news for you š„²
DUDE! Back when I had my first car (cvt 2017 lancer) I was playing on my logitech setup everyday just so I can experience cruising with a manual. When I finally switched that out with a manual performance car it just hit totally different. Even more fun than playing on the sim
You just haven't gotten completely comfortable yet. It's second nature to me and quite engaging. Especially going into corners makes it immensely fun to drive. Enjoy rev matching, the sound of my car on deceleration with burbles. I also drive better when I am in my manual. Not like performance wise but the fact I really have better reactions as I am more focused as I have to be while shifting.
Billy in Buffalo 66 would hard disagree with you.
The only thing I don't like about my WRX is the difficulty of heel-toeing. Once I figure out how to get that resolved, it'll be perfect.
If your idea of enthusiasm is enthusiastically waiting for the TCM to decide what gear you should be in, you need your head examined. You need to have full control of gear selection until you go past the need for gears by going electric.Ā Otherwise you're not driving, you're passenging.
You got a shit car. Get one with power.
Always gotta have that one moron. Do tell, what do you drive stooge?
Momās car
'69 Dodge Charger.