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Hey, renting vehicles with manuals for cheap was a good deal for the Amish. Anyway, if they had charged extra for being Amish, I wooda called 'em "Lousy Krauts!".FDSpirit wrote:Those sneaky bastards!
And people tend to beat the living piss out of rental cars anyway... Can you imagine a week of some dumbshit doing 5,000 RPM clutch pops and then returning the car?ElectroGhandi wrote:I think the reason rental car companies don't offer manuals is because almost everyone wants an automatic rental and those who don't probably want it to learn stick shift on. XD
your already farther than most people learning to drive stick. the thing that most people dont realize is that its not the car thats making the problems, its you, the driver not knowing how to operate it properly. your past the denial stage, now you just have to keep trying and trying until you don't even think about it anymore. i know when i get into a car with a manual tranny its not even a thought of what to do anymore, your arms\legs just know what to do.JusCruzin wrote:I did try to just put it in neutral and practice holding the throttle at 1200 rpm or so, but the problem is that the throttle pedal just has no feel (or maybe I should say that I have no feel for it).
the anxiety after stalling is usually peoples biggest downfalls. they get aggravated, start the motor, and then try to launch quickly because they're mad they stalled, and then more problems arise. you just have to accept the fact you stalled, suck it up, and give it your best shot.JusCruzin wrote:I agree that I just need to get over the anxiety of stalling. It's tough to go from being an exprerienced driver (in automatic) to being barely competent at starting a car from a stop in manual.
Couldn't someone also rev it up to 5,000 rpm in neutral and then shift to drive? I would think the manual would fare better than the automatic in that case.comingbackdown wrote:And people tend to beat the living piss out of rental cars anyway... Can you imagine a week of some dumbshit doing 5,000 RPM clutch pops and then returning the car?ElectroGhandi wrote:I think the reason rental car companies don't offer manuals is because almost everyone wants an automatic rental and those who don't probably want it to learn stick shift on. XD
Yeah, sure... But I've never known anybody who actually did that. People mostly just slam the pedal down and go with an auto... But with a rental car it gets driven like they stole it.ElectroGhandi wrote:Couldn't someone also rev it up to 5,000 rpm in neutral and then shift to drive? I would think the manual would fare better than the automatic in that case.comingbackdown wrote:And people tend to beat the living piss out of rental cars anyway... Can you imagine a week of some dumbshit doing 5,000 RPM clutch pops and then returning the car?ElectroGhandi wrote:I think the reason rental car companies don't offer manuals is because almost everyone wants an automatic rental and those who don't probably want it to learn stick shift on. XD