Manual or Auto License

[VRFURY]

Hey guys, after talkign in Mats thread bout him getting his license i just wanted to know who of you out there have a manual license and who has an auto license..


I got my Manual License btw

Thanx Nic

[azkwazere]

Manual, i reckon if you cant drive a manual you shouldn't be able to drive at al.... not hard..

aZk.

[GLD-086]

^ Yep

Manual driver here.

I've been driving manual, for about 98% of the time, I've been on the road.

[KingDiamond]

Have an auto license because I learned in an auto, and I own an auto

But I can drive manual, at my last job I learned the drive the work ute within a minute, piss easy.

[VRFURY]

yeah i learnt in a manual every tho i new my car was auto, was good choice in the end cause luke only had an auto license and brought a manual car then when he lost his license i drove his manual round for like 8 months then he got his license back as a manual now im bac to an auto

[fourstar82]

I wish I had a manual at home when I was learning to drive, but we only have autos But I can drive a manual, I just need a bit of practice.

[perko88]

yea, im the same as you fourstar, only autos here so i couldnt get much practice in manual , can still drive it though but not licensed to, however i have only had my license for 6 months so will get manual when i get a chance

[Spaced]

Manual licence auto car
*couldn't find a VS manual series 2 they are as scarce as hens teeth*

[VRFURY]

dam, i really didnt think people got auto licenses i thought u would all just go manual cause yeah i just assumed.

[Shounak]

I got an Auto license. All the cars in my house were auto and I never had access to a manual car, until after my P's when some of my mates started getting manuals..

The little A on my license doesn't stop me though. I love manuals..

[HoZy]

I'm going for manual, An the only manual i have around is my sisters VY SS 6speed... Never figured out what the 6th gears for so far haha

But yeh, My car's auto, My bro's is auto, Dad's is auto, Sisters husbands is auto, but everyone has manual license, because back in the day when they all had there show cars, Mustangs & monaro's they were all manuals...

So yeh, i'm learning manual with an instructor, getting manual license, then when i get my ute, just a bit more practice in her an she'll be right

Cheers
MaT

[Stretchomatic]

My car, the family car and both my dad's work utes are all auto...all the grandparents vehicles are auto too (excluding the international truck lol)...we borrowed a ford festiva for a day a few weeks before i got my p's...as much zip as the little thing had i wasn't that interested in learning manual properly...haha and the ony manual i'm around is my mates old hilux and i dont even fit in the drivers seat.

[Shortstuff]

I've got a manual licence. I'm really missing a manual car after having the auto VN for a couple of months now. I still like it a lot,but it's not quite the same.

[garfa]

a lot of the auto drivers are sayig they can drive a manual.
yes making a car go forward is easy in a manual: rev it and let the clutch out. but what about the harder things? rev matching and gear selection plus a heap of other things make "driving" a manual much harder.
also if you think you are a smooth manual driver and then jump on a bike, big differnce.

[andyman]

im going for my manual licence in march (im on my L's)

[Tasmaniak]

whats an auto licence? Mat, I'm sure they all have amanual licences because it just makes sense and thats all that was available.

[Shounak]

a lot of the auto drivers are sayig they can drive a manual.
yes making a car go forward is easy in a manual: rev it and let the clutch out. but what about the harder things? rev matching and gear selection plus a heap of other things make "driving" a manual much harder.
also if you think you are a smooth manual driver and then jump on a bike, big differnce.

They're things that you pick up after driving for 30 minutes in rigorous conditions.

Rev matching, gear selection etc were the easy things. I intuitively did all of them.

The hardest part of driving a manual was hillstarts and mastery of the clutch. After a day or two of driving a manual about, you learn all that..

I traded my car for my mates manual for a week. What you mentioned above is not hard to learn..

[garfa]

mate you might just be a bit of an exception but rev matching well and very quickly on downshifts is NOT easy. if you think it is then you dont know what i mean at all.
hill starts and the take up point on a clutch is the easy part of learning a manual.

[Streetvision]

All we had were automatics. so thats what i learnt in, but my job requires me to drive a manual so i have to get that restriction taken off

[CALAIS 6]

well in sa it doesnt matter lol i learnt in a auto and a manual we only have 2 manuals out of like 6 vehicles and they where work cars a 4wd and a truck so i learnt in the 4wd

[1991_Vn2nV]

well in sa it doesnt matter lol i learnt in a auto and a manual we only have 2 manuals out of like 6 vehicles and they where work cars a 4wd and a truck so i learnt in the 4wd

hehe yeah in SA a license is a license...you learn in an auto and you can drive anything you like. Theres no auto or manual licesnes here

But I learnt in manuals cause thats all the family had, but did log book in an auto wrx to get my license.

[Bax]

Manual, only had autos around the house when learning so we rented a car for a while, then I purchased before I had my licence so I learnt in the vl, was interesting to say the least.

Love manuals, auto's bore me. unless I want to use both hands for something, talking on the phone while eating breakfast or something.

[1vngal]

I've got a manual licence. But I'm happy with my auto car coz I'm laaaaaaaaazy.........

[Charg'd]

i got an auto license, but i drive a manual ute at work, & truck sometimes

[burnz]

you ain't driven a manuel untill you don't use the clutch