B6G Poll: can you drive a manual or not?

[Saddle Tramp]

Quick poll of you awesome members.

So I am guessing that most (more than 50%) of B6G members can drive a manual and @Drex thinks it’s less than 50%. Made me curious but yes or no, can you drive a manual?

100% of the 16 yr old girls in my Jr High, could drive a manual transmission

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[papsblue]

Last manual was '12 Focus ST, loved it. I'm pretty sold on sticking with the 2.3L either way at this point and definitely going Lux. The big thing keeping me away from the manual is the app-based remote start. (Apartment living with a parking structure means normal remote start would have been more or less useless..)

Thinking about trading rides with a friend who has a manual Wrangler for a few days to try to "get it out of my system"

 

[eatworksleepdie]

I will forever drive a manual. The only way I'll flip is if I get an electric vehicle, but hopefully by then we'll have flying cars and I'll want that instead.

 

[soupcook]

Quick poll of you awesome members.

So I am guessing that most (more than 50%) of B6G members can drive a manual and @Drex thinks it’s less than 50%. Made me curious but yes or no, can you drive a manual?

I can drive manuals...but it makes drinking coffee more difficult in traffic.

 

[Bronco4lyfe85]

So 95.5% of Bronco6G can drive a manual but 87% chose an automatic.

Because driving a manual all the time sucks. That and/or the boomers who want the manual haven’t figured out how to vote on this poll yet and are still yelling at their computer.

 

[dominicenoa]

I can drive manual but am getting an auto.

Same here. I originally thought about going manual but I really want that 2.7

 

[Old Guy]

Can but no longer want to. Is fun on occasion, but I have always liked auto's. Maybe thought it w mas cooler holding girlfriends hand than stick shift.

Converted the 1962 Mercury in 1979. Have had 4 manuals since, but never kept them very long.

They are cool, but just not my thing.

 

[ToddPhil]

If they offered the 2.7 in a manual, no brainier I'd get it. But oh well...

 

[Texas Sunshine]

I am the youngest with three older brothers. Being the only girl in the family I had to know how to drop kick a football, shoot a gun(s) rifle & hand gun and drive a stick. No mercy in our house hold and if you used a map to get somewhere, your were mocked....forever! Love the 70's!

 

[Southern Girl]

100% of the 16 yr old girls in my Jr High, could drive a manual transmission

To be fair, they WERE 16 in middle school, so

 

[papsblue]

Consolidating my thoughts here instead of a new thread:

Just to be clear, going with the "ManLux" means:

- Losing Remote start, Trail Control & Trail Turn Assist, and Trail One-Pedal Driving (2.7L Only), ability to get 2.7L
- Assume that ACC will act like the Mustang (?), "Evasive Steering Assist" unknown
- Keeps 4.7 gears with 33s. (I'm not a gearing expert but I'm assuming that will make highway MPGs in 6th more similar to the 10spd auto with 4.46?)
- ...and the cupholders move

Anything I'm not thinking about?

 

[Saddle Tramp]

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To be fair, they WERE 16 in middle school, so

You didn’t finish your post?

 

[The Pope]

So 95.5% of Bronco6G can drive a manual but 87% chose an automatic.

Because driving a manual all the time sucks. That and/or the boomers who want the manual haven’t figured out how to vote on this poll yet and are still yelling at their computer.

If they offered the 2.7 in a manual, no brainier I'd get it. But oh well...

I'd speculate that 37% of that 87% that chose the auto, did so because of the 2.7L.... just saying....

 

[grimmjeeper]

I learned to drive a manual in a 1988 Yugo. It was a hunk of crap but I was able to do it.

I've had quite a few manual transmission vehicles in my life. My daily drivers have been manual more often than not. I had a manual transmission rock crawler that I took all over the place. But at this point, I prefer to daily drive automatics given a commute through traffic. And the rock crawler I'm building up is an automatic.

When I look at ordering my Bronco it'll be a daily driver so it will have an automatic, which is just as well because I also want the 2.7.

I'm not giving up on manual transmissions though. I'm keeping my eye out for a good tow rig (used diesel truck) and a lot of them I'm looking at are manual transmission. Also, once the rock crawler build is done, I'm probably going to pick up a fun muscle car with a manual transmission. There's just something about rowing the gears with a healthy V8 that I miss.

 

[Skip2a]

In my mind I am trading down from the manual to the auto but I want the auto start. My Tacoma is a 6 speed and she is damned cold in the mornings. I'm too lazy to walk out and prestart so I am going with the auto.

My son turns 16 in 10 days: his present is a 5 speed.

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