Manual Transmission? Yea or Nay?
Still looking for the first truck in preparation for our first RV sometime next year and I've pretty much narrowed it down to an F2/350 with the V10. Not sure I want to roll the dice with a 6.0 Diese...
Forum Discussion
Fast Mopar wrote:
The real reason people quit buying sticks (and quit learning to drive them) is because you cannot drink Starbucks coffee and text while driving a stick. Today for many people, driving the car is secondary to doing all the other things people do behind the wheel.
I prefer to be a driver who is engaged in the driving experience and my daily driver is a 5 speed stick (yes, even in heavy Houston stop and go traffic every day). I wish more tow vehicles had the option of auto or stick.
...so because after 45 years of driving stick shift vehicles, I decide I will let the superior performance of today's automatic transmission do the shifting I am no longer an "engaged" driver...does this mean, that in your opinion, 98.5% of the HD pickup purchasers are not engaged in the driving process but instead are just drinking "Starbucks"?
Why is it when the facts are put in play and the numbers tell the story, the manual shift fanatic's have to hoist their "manly" flag and denigrate the vast majority of the truck ownership? The real folly in their argument is in another number altogether...the vast majority of us here grew up on manual transmissions...we have lived the manly life of playing with the stick...and we have seen the light...we do not buy stripped down trucks, we let the transmission shift itself and we enjoy the ride...
I would like to clarify something though...I would not object to any of the manufacturer's offering a manual transmission in their HD pickup's...For those who still want one...so be it...but with the automatic being the defacto standard for transmissions, the manual needs to bear the cost of being an option...I do wonder how many die hard manual guy's would pay the freight to get that manual???
Regards
