Obsolete Skills

[solids]

While this might be arguable, I think driving a stick shift is becoming a lost art. Less and less new cars feature the standard option, and fewer of the younger generations know how to drive this type of car.

[stinkypete]

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While this might be arguable, I think driving a stick shift is becoming a lost art. Less and less new cars feature the standard option, and fewer of the younger generations know how to drive this type of car.

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this is really only true in north america.

[El Diablo]

People,

Any further responses that either:

a) are stupid joke responses (funny ones are fine, but yours probably isn't funny).

or

b) don't have at least a sentence explaining why it is a good choice.

will be deleted.

Carry on.

[maryfield48]

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While this might be arguable, I think driving a stick shift is becoming a lost art. Less and less new cars feature the standard option, and fewer of the younger generations know how to drive this type of car.

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this is really only true in north america.

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I don't think that's true. In Jamaica we import a lot of 2nd hand cars from Japan. Stick shifts are very much the exception, in a way that wasn't true 15 years ago. Also, automatics used to sell for a premium, they don't any more.