What's up with car makers these days? Now 9 out of 10 cars are automatics. Somebody save the manuals! The washington post had an article about Americas hard-texting youth that according to the article, they find driving "seriously lame". Only an alleged 30% of teens appear to like driving. Why do you find driving boring?! Well probably because your parents own an automatic car, and its a bloody camry or a corolla. And because you probably know to drive a car by modern world standards. Meaning that the car has so many computers and sensors that you do nothing much besides move the steering wheel once in a while and step on the gas pedal and on the brake pedal. Real drivers know how to operate the entire car, a third pedal (the clutch) offers you more control of the car... control = more fun! If you only knew the excitement that you get when you perfetly time the heel-toe downshift, i guarantee you that you wouldn't dislike driving as much. But yes back to the manuals, with a manual car you can't text and drive, so its safer. Manuals are also cheaper, perhaps that is why automakers dont offer them, to rip you off more! They also give better miles per gallon for all you tree huggers out there. In conclusion, automatics are boring unless you have an automatic Ferrari which you dont, So yes learn how to drive a manual tranmission and lets save the manuals together!

when did this word made a comeback? i see it all over now, specially on forums as an insult. Thank god no one appears to be using it in actual spoken language, its an ugly word. Not for its meaning perse, just ugly how it sounds. Who is reponsible for its comeback? i thought it had disseapeared but its back, just like michael jackson.

SO i drove a minivan. Why? Doesnt matter but let me tell you it was the most horrifying driving experience of my life. They are very slow, they cant take turns fast, they have terrible stability, they feel wobbly, the steering is absolutely loose and it feels extremely dull, more dull and boring than family guy... and everyone stares at you! No im not a freaking dad yet! I guess it didnt help that i was driving the notoriously known lemon "pontiac transport"... it made me realized why pontiac dissapeared. Yes they were making good cars on their last years but the 70s, 80s, and 90s, all they made was shit... shit with tires. Anyway there is one minivan that commands respect and that is the Renault Escape F1 concept minivan. The rest of the minivans are junk and they should be eradicated, atleast from the freeways.