ITT: Your first car, the car you learned to drive in, and the car you learned to drive manual in (if different)





First car\Learned to drive on: 1988 Acura Legend
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Learned Manual: 1985 Toyota MR2
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my first car was a '74 Nova. while learning to drive, a '66 Plumouth Fury III(moms car). i drove a school bus in high school, so i had to learn to drive a manual in '68 C10 pickup(dads truck), 3 speed on the column w/305 V8. wasn't too good on gas. even tho prices was less than half what they r now. the Nove wasn't too good either w/350 2bbl. the Plymouth was decent w/318 2bbl. i tore the trans up in it while driving it before getting my own car. habbit of backing out of a driveway and while still rolling, drop it in L1 and stomp it. dad got a replacement from a junkyard so it was still able to be driven.

Thats a bad habit :P

Learned to drive in the pimp whip:

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First drove stick in dad's FD, but really learned in my Miata. (see sig)

First car/Learned to drive: 88 Chrysler LeBaron

http://www.usacars.cz/img/LE_BARON_2.jpg

Learned manual: 92 Chevy Camaro RS 25th Anniversary

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First car i learned to drive... obviously.
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First manual car i learned to drive. 94 Integra GS-R B18. Don't have a picture of the GSR but its the same color and model as this one (milano red)

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First car, 86 Chrysler Laser.

Learned to Drive in Iltis and MLVW military trucks.

I learned to drive in a 1990 Camry DX Wagon. V6 Auto.

My first car was a 1984 Nissan 200SX, 2.0 5-speed.

And the car I learned to drive stick on was a 1987 Toyota Xtra-Cab 4WD.

Learned to drive/first car was an '88 Mercury Tracer 4-door hatchback automatic gutless wonder.

Learned stick initially in an old Landcruiser launching boats at a resort... then got better with my '67 Chevy pickup, then finally got to a point I consider decent with my AE86 SR5. I still can't heel-toe real well.

Learned to drive in a '93 Camry and '02 Chrysler Town and Country.

First time I drove stick was in a friend's Colt Vista, and I had to stop three times and never snubbed it out. But I really earned my wings on my FC.

Oh, and what about all my hours on forklifts and Raymond lifts, do those get me anywhere?

i learned to drive and learned stick in a 91 acura integra ls, it was a hand-down from my mom when she got her rsx-s. so i sorta learned how to drive stick in that too

I still can't heel-toe real well.

Adjust the pedals. :D

Sorry I don't have pictures nor feel like really posting any, you guys know what they look like ;)
First car I ever drove was my dads Mercedes E320.
First manual car was my friends Miata home from a party. He was hammered and since he lived across the street from me it worked for both of us. :)

no pics of either!

First car I drove/the car I learned to drive in was my mom's 1991 mercury topaz.

I think the first manual car I ever drove was my '89 ford escort, but I didn't really "learn" much till I had someone teach me - in a 1979 mercedes-benz 240D.

First car was an 1987 Mazda B2000 truck. Then I bought the 92 LX and then a 99 F-150, and finally the Mach 1.

first car : 1993 toyota camry 5spd

never drove an auto really. only a few times. its quite scary.

first car i owned is the 240sx.

first car : 1993 toyota camry 5spd

never drove an auto really. only a few times. its quite scary.

first car i owned is the 240sx.
:eek: , your parents drive manual also?

1995 Honda Prelude is what I learned to drive stick on.

My first car was a year later and it was a 1989 Jeep Cherokee.

:eek: , your parents drive manual also?

my dad taught me. he drives stick only. at the risk of sounding extraordinarily ludicrous, my dad learned how to drive stick during his stint in the taiwanese army. he'd drive around with his friends in some kind of a jeep on twisty dirt roads in the taiwanese back country of the 60s or 70s. at least that's what he says.

my mom drives auto and i avoid driving any of her cars if i can help it. it feels scary.

If auto is scary, then you don't know how to drive it. There's definitely a very different feel to having a torque converter in your drivetrain, but it's not something to be afraid of. You have to learn how to modulate the pedal to cause your upshifts/downshifts and understand that you're not going to have near the effects of engine braking that you do in a stick. It just means you have to be more liberal in your use of the brakes.

To say that driving an automatic "feels scary" sounds a lot to me like you're trying to brag about your mastery of stickshift (my words, not yours). All I can say is get comfortable with it, and learn to make that automatic your bitch.

The six speed auto in the 06 Mazda 6 is nice. While it doesn't do the engine braking thing so much, it will shift a lot, like a manual driver will. Mash that pedal at 60 and it'll go from 6th to 3rd. It's noice.

auto's tend to suck.

I rented a cavalier to go to NC a few years ago, in the hills to maintain 80MPH it had to use 3rd gear, and if I left it in D instead of 3 it would "hunt" between 3 and 4 CONSTANTLY, so I put it in 3 and had to deal with 5000RPM for 10 minutes at a time.

my friends rendezvous... 70MPH cruise = say 25% throttle... at 26% throttle it downshifts and starts doing 4KRPM when all you wanted to do was go 71...

The auto on a cav is quite a different monster from the auto on a . . . you know . . . good car? :P

The auto on a cav is quite a different monster from the auto on a . . . you know . . . good car? :P

Cavaliers scare me.

First vehicle I drove: 1983 Chev Blaser with a Diesel. I was 7 or so standing on the seat steering while it in 4 low first gear while my dad threw hay off the trailer behind it.

First vehicle I learned to drive manual: 1987 Jeep Wrangler

First car I ever drove was an Eagle Talon TSI, first car I ever owned was an FC.

Learned to drive on a ford tarus station wagon


Learned standard on an 87 (ish) Acura integra



My first car was an '81 Jeep CJ-7

If auto is scary, then you don't know how to drive it. There's definitely a very different feel to having a torque converter in your drivetrain, but it's not something to be afraid of. You have to learn how to modulate the pedal to cause your upshifts/downshifts and understand that you're not going to have near the effects of engine braking that you do in a stick. It just means you have to be more liberal in your use of the brakes.

To say that driving an automatic "feels scary" sounds a lot to me like you're trying to brag about your mastery of stickshift (my words, not yours). All I can say is get comfortable with it, and learn to make that automatic your bitch.


first of all, i will freely admit that i do not know how to drive auto well. my friend does all kinds of weird revmatch downshifting in his automatic and what not that i only barely comprehend. i suck at driving auto.

but, i will not waste time learning to drive automatic when i have no desire to drive automatic... that would be like me forcing my mom to drive stick, when she has no desire to learn stick. let people do what they want. i am not saying manual is better than auto. different strokes for different folks. werd?

second, all i said is 'auto is scary.' nowhere did i say i am the almighty god and lord master professional of stick driving. i don't know why you read that into it. i know many people who are better at driving stick than me.

there's really no such thing as "learning to drive an automatic." u just put the thing in "D", and press the gas pedal. it up shifts and down shifts automatically. what ur friend does i used to do when i was a teen in my mom's car, hot rodding it around.

there's really no such thing as "learning to drive an automatic." u just put the thing in "D", and press the gas pedal. it up shifts and down shifts automatically. what ur friend does i used to do when i was a teen in my mom's car, hot rodding it around.

While for A->B driving that may be true, there are certain things you can do other than just "press the gas pedal". On a good auto, you have a lot more control than you might think, and more than most people ever use. Throttle position is everything in an auto, and I mean more than just WOT or off the gas. Automatics are designed with certain shift points, both for upshift and kickdown, and you most certainly should learn them if you're gonna spend any amount of time driving a car with one.

It's all part of making the most of what you have, and driving around a car's faults. As I've said before, I've schooled my share of folks whilst driving my automatic, convertible, 4-banger Mustang (arguably the slowest car to wear the Mustang badge), just because I knew what that car and what it was (and wasn't) capable of. Most people barely use 50% of their car's potential (for 'vette owners, this is more like 10%), so if you can use 90% of a "slower" car's potential, you'll be faster than most people on the road.

And yes, having a stick increases the potential of the car. Even I prefer to drive stick, I just don't discount a car simply because it has a torque converter.