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...
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Boy, some posts in here sure do smell of that ol' elitist attitude that rears it's ugly head now and again.
I learned to drive with a 3 on the tree pickup. My first truck was a 4 speed manual. I've driven OTR tractors enough to know it wasn't something I wanted to get fat doing. I've had a LOT of manual vehicles both truck and auto and I'm proud to say it wouldn't break my heart if I never had to own another manual transmission truck for the rest of my days. Not in something I have to USE. If it's a toy, that's one thing, if it's something I have to use to work, that's another.
If that makes me part of the "herd", well, I've been part of worse things. If it makes somebody feel better to say I drive an auto because I don't know how to drive a stick, which means I don't know how to drive, so be it. No skin off my nose and doesn't bother me one little bit.
I say to each his own, and to denigrate someone based on their preference is...rude at best.
I learned to drive with a 3 on the tree pickup. My first truck was a 4 speed manual. I've driven OTR tractors enough to know it wasn't something I wanted to get fat doing. I've had a LOT of manual vehicles both truck and auto and I'm proud to say it wouldn't break my heart if I never had to own another manual transmission truck for the rest of my days. Not in something I have to USE. If it's a toy, that's one thing, if it's something I have to use to work, that's another.
If that makes me part of the "herd", well, I've been part of worse things. If it makes somebody feel better to say I drive an auto because I don't know how to drive a stick, which means I don't know how to drive, so be it. No skin off my nose and doesn't bother me one little bit.
I say to each his own, and to denigrate someone based on their preference is...rude at best.
