Comment Re:No stick shift option (Score 1) 159
Every automatic suffers from lag. You press the pedal and you have to wait for it to spin up before it engages and starts moving. This is especially apparent if you ever have to rapidly accelerate such as getting onto a highway. You press the pedal hard, there's a lag as the car spins up, then suddenly you lurch forward once it tries to catch up.
This does not happen in a stick. You press the pedal and it goes.
I use regularly use gearing to control my speed rather than braking, something people do endlessly. They're always braking. They brake going down hills. They brake going up hills. They brake at green lights. They brake for a squirrel a quarter mile down the road. Using gearing, that eliminates large portions of braking. For example, if I see a light is red, rather than putting on my brake, I shift to a lower gear and let the gears slow me down until I get closer when I then use my brakes to come to a stop.
With a stick shift, the gear never changes until you change it. You don't get the back and forth uncertainty of automatics. If I need to be in a third gear pull because I'm going up a hill, guess what. That's what gear I stay in the entire time.
There a whole host of reasons a stick shift is important me. These are just a few of them.