I prefer a stickshift over an automatic transmission, and I seem to be in the minority on that preference. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Now I'm not recommending this, but sometimes after you've been driving for a few hours the wheel and stickshift become extensions of your hands, the pedals part of your feet, and the towns and miles (kilometers) start to fly by. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I thought it felt like a traditional stickshift with a gremlin doing the shifting from underneath the car. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He taught my sister how to drive a stickshift after they broke up, so he was a decent guy. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
The twins' first driving lesson note to self, don't leave your stickshift car in neutral in the driveway...see Andi's post about "making an entrance" ❋ Unknown (2008)
One advantage of naming a vehicle “Manuel,” particularly if the car is a stickshift, is that, if you apply an embossed or machine printed appellation somewhere around the dashboard, then people may think that the car manufacturer deliberately misspelled the word “manual” when they were simply trying to inform a new driver that the car in question has a manual transmission. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I keep a mala around my stickshift & used to keep a buddha glued to my dash both for roadrage. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Rose Bowl has been involved in several landmark moments in my life, most of them when I was a teenager living in La Crescenta: When I was fourteen, I attended the Depeche Mode Concert for the Masses there, and when I was fifteen, Darin taught me how to drive a stickshift in his VW Bug . . . right in the parking lot that was now on my left. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Learning stylesheets to me is like learning to drive a stickshift car with about seventy-three gears, only some of which work on your particular model, and some of which work differently depending on whether your car is in the driveway or on the highwaycite. ❋ Unknown (2002)
I expected him to drive the stickshift home and I would drive the automatic, but he climbed into the Cadillac and leaned out the window. ❋ Barbara Robinette Moss (2001)
I waved away Beth's complaint that it was a stickshift, which she didn't know how to use. ❋ Outfoxed (2001)
Ten minutes later, Dave found himself sandwiched on the front bench of the van between Jason and Doug, and very grateful the van didn't have a stickshift, or he might have lost a kneecap somewhere along the trip. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1990)
Getting it in gear came courtesy of a five-speed stickshift protruding from the floor next to twin sticks that switch the FJ44 from two-wheel to four-wheel drive. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Brompton S2L with a pool-ball stickshift, stop-cock hinge clamps and skateboard wheels for rollers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I'd buy a Fusion with a 4 cylinder and a stickshift myself. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We still yearn for a stickshift, but we know a good thing when we see it -- and the 2009 Nissan GT-R is unquestionably one of the best performance cars ever.
