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If the auto gets me from point A to point B, and has heat for the winter, I am good to go. A/C is optional see your dealer for details.
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Daniel Butler
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I've never driven manual. Except that one time I tried to back my stepdad's truck out of the driveway and crashed it because the clutch feels awful much like a brake pedal...
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^That right there is what will limit my vehicle choices in the future. I prefer a manual, but a lot of newer vehicles don't even offer them. Back in the day, both the Ford Aerostar and the Dodge Caravan had manual transmissions. Nowadays you can't even get a fullsize GM truck with a manual.
Although, BJ, I sometimes wonder about why people feel the need for minivans at all... I don't much care for them, bleh.
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What's so good about a manual? I've heard a lot of people say they like them - is it just a matter of what you learned to drive, or is there some advantage to a manual I don't know about?
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Automatic, but only because my driving style would require me to be Zaphod Beeblebrox to run manual these days. Interestingly enough, a friend once noted that although I drove an automatic, I positioned my hands like it was a manual. I told hie that's because the firing controls were on the handle, & I could easily reach the fan lasers, proton bolts, & missiles.
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Fabrux, when you have 2 kids (plus a third on the way), 2 cats and a dog, and you're trying to get them all (& their luggage) to the grandparents' house for the holidays in a sport coupe, you'll understand the reason for minivans. Actually, until we got ours a year ago, my wife swore up one side & down the other that she would never own one. Now she won't do without it!
As for manual vs automatic, I just find manuals more fun to drive. I like being actively engaged while driving.
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I voted 'Neither" because there wasn't a 'Both" option. I like auto for city driving so I don't wear out my left leg pushing the clutch in all the time for stop-and-go traffic. Anything that involves distance driving, I prefer manual.
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I voted neither also, as long as the car moves when I need it too I am relatively happy.
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I learned to drive on automatics. Always wanted to drive a manual and any vehicles I get for myself were/are manuals. Once I learned and drove a manual transmission, switching back to an automatic made me feel...lazy. It didn't seem like I was paying enough attention to what I was doing when driving and it kinda weirded me out. I prefer having the extra control a manual transmission gives me.
BJ: I suppose you may have a point there. But a station wagon would perform the same tasks... Just don't ever get a crossover. Christ, those things don't know what they want to be. I hate the term, also. May as well call it what it is, a car on steroids...
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Manual. I learned to drive on a Volkswagon Bettle. Driven many different things since, and I'm looking for a car now. Probably be a Honda since the last one had 120,000 when I bought it, and I drove it 8 years. Great car.
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Just don't ever get a crossover. Christ, those things don't know what they want to be. I hate the term, also. May as well call it what it is, a car on steroids...
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