Chicks that drive stick

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  • matthew_b
    matthew_b Posts: 137 Member
    I took my drivers test on one. Drove one up into a few years ago. Sadly they don't make mini-vans with manual transmissions.

    I drove a stick Dodge Caravan rental car in Belgium. I give my wifey a bad time about how she could have had a stick shift if she had one imported from Europe.
  • 26Nirak
    26Nirak Posts: 140 Member
    Hahaha...I drive two sticks...one of them a Beetle convertible, my summer toy. I don't know if guys think its cool and I don't really care. I know my boys (which are grown up guys now) did NOT find it cool when they were still living at home, because they don't drive stick and thus could never borrow my car....
  • wiltl
    wiltl Posts: 188 Member
    6 speed manual, 4.7l V8 2006 Dodge Dakota! I ordered it through the dealer, because I wanted a manual and couldn't find one off the lot. So, my truck had 10 miles on it when I picked it up, no test driving miles or transport miles.
    I kinda taught myself when I was about 19. My dad tried to teach me on his truck, but it had a really touchy clutch and I kept killing it. Since he was driving 90 miles to work each way, he didn't want me trashing his truck. Two boyfriends had manuals and taught me a bit, then a friend with a 3 speed needed a DD one night so I really had to figure it out! I then just took my dads keys from him and figured out how to drive his truck with the sticky clutch on a long straight stretch of road one evening. I've driven manual ever since.
    I live in the Seattle area, so there is a lot of traffic and hills and I did recently have to replace my clutch. It sucked, but when you have to shift constantly in just a few miles, it definitely decreases the life of the clutch. I also just got back from a 1400 mile round trip, with the return half on the 101 up the Oregon coast. Loved shifting through the curves and hills!
  • cupcakes_
    cupcakes_ Posts: 274 Member
    I had to learn to drive using a standard. The car I have now is an automatic but I really miss having a 5spd.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Hahaha...I drive two sticks...one of them a Beetle convertible, my summer toy. I don't know if guys think its cool and I don't really care. I know my boys (which are grown up guys now) did NOT find it cool when they were still living at home, because they don't drive stick and thus could never borrow my car....

    Lol. This. I love that most people can't borrow my car.
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    Hahaha...I drive two sticks...one of them a Beetle convertible, my summer toy. I don't know if guys think its cool and I don't really care. I know my boys (which are grown up guys now) did NOT find it cool when they were still living at home, because they don't drive stick and thus could never borrow my car....

    You didn't teach them? I want to teach my kids. I might have to go buy a car to do it on, but still.
  • domsmoms
    domsmoms Posts: 174 Member
    Currently have a VW TDI Jetta wagon (kids and dogs)...love manual diesel even better than gas! The torque you get is awesome and makes driving that much smoother (in mho)!

    Can you even kill it if you try? My FIL has a Dodge diesel pickup and you can't kill it. Even if you dump the clutch it just squeaks the tires and lurches off without killing the engine.

    The car I learned to drive stick on was an old Volvo Diesel - I had to learn, I had just bought the car and didn't know how to drive stick (my dad let me drive his car home from the lot then proceeded to give me lessons). That thing was SO easy to learn stick on. It did just like that Dodge diesel pickup, it was almost impossible to stall it. That car had weird problems, like electrical things (headlights would stop working sometimes) and once it wouldn't reverse for about 6 months, what a pain in the butt. But I still miss it sometimes... memories...
  • brooke_2727
    brooke_2727 Posts: 29
    Love driving sticks!!
  • LifeChangingExp8512
    LifeChangingExp8512 Posts: 184
    I drive my stick real good. :devil: :love:
  • lamilli09
    lamilli09 Posts: 354 Member
    I can drive a stick shift! I drive an automatic, though, so I don't get a lot of practice. As a result, I don't make the smoothest transitions... so I usually only drive stick shift when I'm DD-ing haha
  • shanae727
    shanae727 Posts: 546 Member
    <--can drive a stick. I had a 92 honda prelude SI--loved hearing the gears change smoothly

    guys drooled over my car and always wanted me to sell it but it didn't matter to me I just love 5 speed cars
  • lamilli09
    lamilli09 Posts: 354 Member
    Does anyone even care since this post has nothing to do about sex?

    No. Haha.

    I personally never tried to learn how to drive a stick.. Not that I wouldn't want to learn, but it's just more convenient to have an automatic.

    How else am I supposed to drink coffee, text, fiddle with my stereo, put on makeup, and steer with my knees at the same time?


    Edit: Before Sarah McLachlan starts playing and someone approaches the podium with a story about someone they know dying in a car crash caused by someone not paying attention behind the wheel: I'm kidding.

    hahaha ^^^ love this edit
  • LandryBabe
    LandryBabe Posts: 29
    Yeah, I have no idea how to drive stick. :/ #southerngirlfail
  • beach_please
    beach_please Posts: 533 Member
    I can drive stick... well, sort of. I'm not very good at it but I can get where I need to if I absolutely HAVE to drive a stick-shift.

    My husband taught me, which I wouldn't recommend if you wish to stay married.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    <--can drive a stick. I had a 92 honda prelude SI--loved hearing the gears change smoothly

    guys drooled over my car and always wanted me to sell it but it didn't matter to me I just love 5 speed cars

    Hawt. Fo sho.
  • _Wits_
    _Wits_ Posts: 1,286 Member
    Heck yes! I love driving stick and I'm good at it......I had stick shifts until my current car, which I bought in a hurry even though it's an automatic. My new car will be a stick for sure... Any friends that have stick shifts generally let me drive their cars when we go out...lol...prolly because they see how happy I am driving all fast n furious around town. :)
  • Nerdy_Rose
    Nerdy_Rose Posts: 1,277 Member
    Last two cars were stick. If I get a new one, it will be too. Currently carless.
  • IrishHarpy1
    IrishHarpy1 Posts: 399 Member
    Always drove a stick, and always a VW: '72 Beetle, '84 Golf, '98 Cabrio, '02 Beetle, and my current '11 Jetta. Love 'em!!!
  • T34418l3angel
    T34418l3angel Posts: 474 Member
    I basically taught myself how to drive sick at 18. I now drive a 2011 Subaru Impresa Sti, obviously sick too :)
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Always drove a stick, and always a VW: '72 Beetle, '84 Golf, '98 Cabrio, '02 Beetle, and my current '11 Jetta. Love 'em!!!

    Awesome. I'd love another VW
  • tacticalhippie
    tacticalhippie Posts: 596 Member
    I can...
    I am so proud of myself lol.

    We test drove a 2012 Malibu and I was sad that it was an automatic.
    We ended up not buying it.
  • lilmisfit
    lilmisfit Posts: 860 Member
    I can drive stick, but my husband can't. I kind of like that. LOL

    I was actually forced to learn how to drive stick in rush hour traffic in Atlanta, after buying a pickup truck. You learn REAL FAST that way! :tongue:
  • JenKillough
    JenKillough Posts: 474 Member
    I learned how to drive a manual and I'm pretty good at it :) But my car is an automatic and I prefer it that way.
  • JenKillough
    JenKillough Posts: 474 Member
    I can drive stick, but my husband can't. I kind of like that. LOL

    I was actually forced to learn how to drive stick in rush hour traffic in Atlanta, after buying a pickup truck. You learn REAL FAST that way! :tongue:

    I learned a thing or two about driving in rush hour traffic in Atlanta when I lived there for a year :D It makes me laugh at drivers most everywhere I go. I think if you learn to drive in Atlanta downtown, you can probably drive just about anywhere.
  • navstone
    navstone Posts: 30
    learned to drive in one. Even know how and what double clutch is lol
  • Amber82479
    Amber82479 Posts: 629 Member
    Yep, I think it's pretty bad *kitten* and I did it for 11 years, before foot and ankle problems forced me to switch to automatic :(
  • katamus
    katamus Posts: 2,363 Member
    I will ONLY get a vehicle that has a manual transmission. Currently I'm in a 2010 Mazda 3 hatchback and a 2005 350Z (with a Stage 3 clutch). Previously I had a Toyota Spyder MR2 (horrible mistake, I know), a 92 Camaro, and my first car was a 97 Sunfire. All manual.

    And yes, EVERY male I ever encounter goes "what? You drive a stick?" No, I just Flinstones my way down the road. >.<

    I know very few women who can drive stick. The only ones I can think of are my mother (car sales for years) and a family friend. Actually, I know a lot of dudes who can't drive stick and that shocks me.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    Yep, I prefer it to automatic, even though both of our current vehicles are automatic. :tongue:

    Learned to drive a stick on my dad's old beater Ford - granny gear and had to use two hands to get it in reverse. Mom said if I could learn to drive that, I could probably drive anything. :bigsmile:

    I also know how to ride a motorcycle, and how to handle a gun.

    Skills everyone should know in my opinion. :wink:
  • katamus
    katamus Posts: 2,363 Member
    I also know how to ride a motorcycle, and how to handle a gun.

    Skills everyone should know in my opinion. :wink:

    AGREED. Thank you for adding that. :D
  • taeliesyn
    taeliesyn Posts: 1,116 Member
    In Aus if you can't drive a manual (stick) you're the odd one out, man or woman.

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