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Manual or Auto License

Do you have a Manual or Auto License

  • Manual License

    Votes: 177 75.6%
  • Auto License

    Votes: 50 21.4%
  • No License

    Votes: 7 3.0%

  • Total voters
    234

yZoH

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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
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

Tasmaniak

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

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garfa said:
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

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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.
 

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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

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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
 
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