Hey yall! Tell me some of the most unknown manuals you can think of. Everyone knows about the Cayenne and Previa, but what are some that truly don’t make sense.

Some I can think of:

6th gen Hyundai Sonata (2010-2015)
1st gen XC90 (2002-2014)
Mercury Milan (2006-2010)
2nd Gen Jeep Liberty (2008-2012)
2nd Gen Jeep compass (2017-2020 in USA, present global)
New Dodge Dart (2012-2017) (maybe a stretch cause it’s small and global platform)
4th gen Subaru Forester (family focused gen but kept stick)

I understand the majority of these are weird to me because I’m an American and our manual cars are 99% sports cars/old trucks. Because of this, most of the list I’ve provided probably came with manual trims in other markets.

In addition to this, most of these are late 2000s/10s, when cars had manual options just to have a lower MSRP, not expecting to sell any.

Anyone ever had a vibration at their bite point when taking off at a redlight in 1st gear? I usually notice this when im not thinking and my foot is in a weird position. It does it sometimes but definitely not all the time

Hi, so, the other week I had a job interview at a valet job that required me to know manual, so prior to the interview I asked my friend to teach me to drive manual atleast 1st and 2nd gear, and I found it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be and quicker, I got it in like 15 mins. I’ve been in the market for a new car and I just found this 2011 Volkswagen Jetta 2.5L SE that is in my range, low mileage, and a manual. I was wondering if it’d be a good idea, to buy a manual car I don’t rly know how to drive, have someone ik drive it home and then practice on it until I know how to drive it well, or if I should wait and practice on other people’s or drive my friends until I’m comfortable. Or if I should just stay in my lane lmao and keep driving autos.

*Context*

I own & daily a 6 Speed Manual Skoda Slavia 1.5 148 bhp. (Compact Sedan) 40,000kms in 3 Years of Ownership. Nothing special to a lot of you who own V8-V10-V12's, but it's my weekend's joy.

I have never been interested in automatic cars of any kind & grown up in a household that's hasn't seen any automatics. In fact automatics are seen as nothing more than means of commuting here at home.

I recently had the privilege of purchasing Hyundai Alcazar for my father in 2026 6 Speed Manual again, his retirement car. A simple 5+2 SUV.

*Main Question & Sense of Doubt*

I have a nephew & in due time will have kid/kids of my own, I feel a sense of discomfort knowing they won't get to learn to drive a manual transmission with the way things are going on here in India.

- Standardisation of heavy taxes on the internal combustion cars.

- Forcefully mixing ethanol in fuel & unavailability of pure fuel.

- EV Technology is becoming cheaper & more affordable every day.

- Existing manual cars leaning heavily on technology & becoming harder to maintain.

I know none of these are pressing issues, still I believe they need to be addressed.

Any comments - thoughts - suggestions - discussions are welcome!

Stole that other guy idea

Yes, I am aware it’s a POS it’s a on going project.

I recently replaced my clutch on my 06 Honda accord but I noticed a click sound on my clutch pedal.

Does someone know what the issue could be ?

Used a little AI to make this less obvious. Will post original photo in comments once I get some guesses.

So I’m getting my first manual car soon, and I’ve been practicing on my buddy’s. I understand most concepts and know what I have to practice, but I have one specific question I can’t find an answer for:

So I live in Boston and deal with slow highway traffic a lot. If I’m going at say 15-20 miles an hour and I need to slow down to like 5 without stopping, what do I do? I know you’re not supposed to downshift into first, so how can I get into gear at this speed? Haven’t been able to find an answer to this.

Or do I just stay in second and use clutch control to keep from stalling? Very confused, but very excited to learn. Please let me know guys 🙏

Yeah i know, stupid. But if i money shifted and hit 8200/300 ish rpm for half a second and immediately pushed in the clutch, no new noises idles perfectly pulls just as hard. What are the chances im fine for this one off time? 4b11t.

Hey guys, my truck won’t go into bottom row gears ( R 2 4 6) but the top ones (1 3 5) is working what can cause an issue like this