Originally Posted by
mtb_addict
This is just like drivers who learned to drive with stick shift and then switch over to automatics will still prefer stick shift...and are lamenting that you can't find new cars anymore with manual shift.
Driver who never learn stick shift (or drove it only during drivers ed), will say how hard it is to drive in traffic with stick shift and will say automatic is so much better.
It boils down to: what you were first exposed to.
Nope. I say I prefer stick shift because when I am driving, I can stick it in one gear and know it is going to stay there, which comes into play the two or three times a year I want to race it. That, and I want one. Other than that one fact, today's autos (well, actually DCT, at least the ones that go in cars I'd actually drive) are better in pretty much every way. And even as a stick lover, I am not going to argue that because I know how to drive them in traffic, they are more convenient or that clutch wear isn't a real concern.