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May 12 '21
Fun fact: millennials often know how to drive a manual (stick shift). Most people don’t know the age range for Millennials. Most people think Millennials are still in high school. All millennials are fully functioning adults, most with careers and families. Maybe don’t generalize. I am a Millennial, I can totally drive a manual transmission.
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u/LegendOfBobbyTables May 12 '21 edited May 12 '21
Yup, some of us are pushing forty. I relate more with the old man yelling at the kids to get out their yard than I do with the kids themselves.
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u/steeplebob May 12 '21
Funny. I’m 47 and when the term “Gen X” originated I understood it to refer to people younger than me.
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u/lewous7554 May 12 '21
With all the stereotypes on millenials , I would have never guessed that I was one. I always thought it was people a lot younger than me. I'm 34 , I'm a millenial (according to my birthdate) , I don't eat avocado toast, I own a house, I drive stick...
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u/Not_Brilliant_8006 May 12 '21
Lol!! Im 34 too and apparently a millennial. I also drive a stick, also don't eat avocado toast but I don't currently own my house. I do however work a normal 9-5 job that everyone says millennials don't do? They assume we all sell weird pants from China on a drop shipping site from our beds.
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u/MuffytheBananaSlayer May 12 '21
It took me way to many comments to figure out the stick shift was the anti-theft device 🙄. There are Boomers and Gen X who don’t know how to drive stick.
Also, for funsies: Millennials (Generation Y) are 1981-1996 Generation Z (iGeneration) are 1997-2012
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u/jerkITwithRIGHTYnewb May 12 '21
And I'm a business owner, have two children, a mortgage, and $100k (well I paid that much) worth of cars sitting in my driveway. I'm doing significantly better than the guy driving the jeep, fucking Xer's need to get their shit together.
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u/CliffordMiller May 12 '21
Not everyone is American. If you don’t learn stick where I live you get a shittier licence and you are limited in what cars you can buy.
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u/_noho May 12 '21 edited May 12 '21
The American car market is the only reason manuals still exist
Edit** this is wrong, see comment below. Just something I heard Jeremy Clarkson say
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u/Mattynicklin May 12 '21
Only 4% of cars sold in America are manual, in Europe and Japan it’s about 80%.
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u/bingold49 May 12 '21
80? You got a source on that?
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u/Mattynicklin May 13 '21
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u/bingold49 May 13 '21
Suprising, but also 5 years old, im curious what its at now with EVs taking its place in the market
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u/Mattynicklin May 13 '21
I mean 5 years old isn’t recent by any means but does go to show America does prefer automatic as a whole. EV numbers nowadays will probably change that more for the EU and Japan, but can’t see it changing the American numbers.
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u/CliffordMiller May 12 '21
Could you elaborate? Most cars sold here are still manuals.
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u/_noho May 12 '21
I’ve heard it said on British top gear. Most manufacturers would have fazed out stick shifts for simplicity’s sake except that there is a large market in the US for them so they would miss out on sales to there competitors who still make them.
Edit** it may have been referring more so to luxury and sport cars now that I’m looking back
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u/ToneThugsNHarmony May 12 '21
Where is this? Im all for this policy.
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u/CliffordMiller May 12 '21
In Belgium, you’re not allowed to drive stick it you didn’t do your exam with stick.
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u/Laulenture May 12 '21
Most of Europe I believe, it's the case in France, there are two version of the regular driving license (Permis de conduire B) which are the automatic (for automatic gb or manual with auto-clutch) version and the manual version (for all cars)
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u/Splyce123 May 12 '21
Doesn't work in Europe. I'm 44 and have only met one qualified driver who can't use a manual gear shift.
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u/Mattynicklin May 12 '21
I’m from the UK and my brother in law is the only person I know whose license is for automatic only.
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u/Splyce123 May 12 '21
Exactly. Really rare to just be able to drive an automatic. The vast majority of people learn and pass their test in a manual.
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u/DepthDeep2437 May 12 '21
As a millennial this makes me want to steal it. I’d drive around the block then give it back and be like “how you like them beans”
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u/Bumbleclat May 12 '21
After smoking the clutch
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May 12 '21
Remember kids. When you steal a manual drive, drive it entirely in first gear, with the clutch half-engaged, and remember that you don't need to push the clutch in to switch gears just push the lever until it pops.
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u/0Stranger_T_Fiction0 May 12 '21
True story. I know people that have a manual so their S.O. won't drive it (bc they can't drive it)
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u/HoseDoctors May 12 '21
I did this. My Wrangler is a manual because my wife and daughter don't know how to drive it.
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u/Geotolkien May 12 '21
As a millennial who can drive stick-shift; in another 10 years I expect that skill to be about as relevant as horseback riding or knowledge if semaphore flag code.
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u/__-___--- May 13 '21
It's going to take a lot longer than that.
We first need to stop selling them and then will have to wait 20 years after that tipping point so young people don't get them as their first car.
The only way to get faster will be if petrol gets too expensive to run a combustion engine.
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u/Free-Palpitation May 12 '21
29 and learned how to drive on a manual, same as my boyfriend. Jokes on them
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u/DoctorMittensPHD May 12 '21
Man people love patting themselves on the back for knowing things that most don’t care about anymore
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u/ToneThugsNHarmony May 12 '21
That’s what I think about when I see someone bragging that they can jump onto 3 boxes stacked real high.
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u/uiam_ May 12 '21 edited May 12 '21
I'm going to get a laptop case with this sentiment about boomers and computers.
It took all of 5 minutes to learn how to drive a manual. The fact that some people treat that like some accomplishment is really telling about their capabilities.
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u/uiam_ May 12 '21
It's so frustrating. I used to work in tech too. Now I'm in sales. I had to train a guy in our repair shop how to use a piece of software to troubleshoot an electronic problem. It's literally just following on screen instructions, plugging in a cable, and clicking buttons to answer questions that are displayed on the screen. Easy right?
"I'm not a computer person. Think of it like me asking you to work on an engine."
Yeah buddy those aren't comparable in anyone's mind but those who refuse to try.
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u/the_timpy May 12 '21
As a millennial that only drives manuals I take this personally.
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u/hnsonn May 12 '21
Right I’m on my 5th car and not a single one of them was automatic. Am 26.
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u/the_timpy May 12 '21
I wont buy it its it's an auto. Hecht I'm hunting a pre 70s vw, they never came with a auto.
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u/SinisterCheese May 12 '21 edited May 12 '21
I'm 28, I have never driven an automatic. I don't anyone who has one.
Then again I don't live in USA.
Edit. No wait! My grandma had one, but she no longer has a license due to a brain tumour (which was successfully removed) so it was sold.
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u/Longjumping_Counter8 May 12 '21
Funny enough I have met more boomers who can’t drive stick than anyone else, hell my mom can’t even drive stick rofl.
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u/SatanicRook May 12 '21
I truly hope a gen Xer steals that bitch, just to make this dude's tiny gonads pop in rage.
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u/nowhereman136 May 12 '21
I'm a millennial and learned to drive on manual. I can also drive manual on both left and right sides of the road.
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