Sentences with phrase «first stick shift car»

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Many first drive programs offer the opportunity to switch cars halfway along the route, say from a stick - shift midgrade / cloth - seat LT with the RS package to an automatic transmission - equipped Premier with the Z - link (a.k.a. Watts link) rear suspension.

This is the first car that I learned stick shift on.

The first Time I experienced it was while learning stick on a friends car, and it jerked the car quite a bit between shifts.

According to Edmunds.com, the online automotive research company in Santa Monica, Calif., manual or stick shift transmissions comprised roughly seven percent of new car sales in the first quarter of 2012.

I've been driving stick - shift cars since the 1970s, and when I drove this TDI, I stalled it more than once, both pulling away from a stop in first gear and at low speed in second gear.

The deathwatch for manual transmissions started more than a decade ago, when the first cars began to deliver better EPA results with automatic transmissions than with stick shifts.

Many people who switch to a stick shift car for the first time thinking they will like it, soon grow to regret that decision.

After a decade, there still is no car with a stick shift that is more fun to drive in the first five gears.

Still, after a decade, there still is no car with a stick shift that is more fun to drive in the first five gears.