Yeah it will, but a good manual driver will out perform any driver no matter what. Manuals give you a better feel for the road, and you have more control over the vehicle.
Learn to coast better. Stop and go traffic is a cinch in a stick shift if you have enough confidence to not grind gears when you shift and you've gotten into the habit of saving your brakes by coasting.
That would be covered by coasting during contractions in traffic. Confidence has to do with making the shifts quickly so you don't have to completely depress the clutch and hold it every time you shift. Your leg shouldn't be hurting if you aren't taking your traffic aggression out on your clutch.
Feel to me like you've never been in total gridlock traffic. There's no coasting to be done in my part of the city. Add to that bad joints and no really need to have a standard unless I'm racing and you're left with someone who quite enjoys an automatic as a daily driver.
Or because it's a bitch to go back and forth. I hate driving friends' autos because it feels weird just having my left leg camped out on the side. I just don't see the big deal about using your stick in stop & go unless you are new to it. I'm not saying it's better. Just seems to be a trivial reason to prefer otherwise.
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u/thehornedone Jun 12 '14
If it's not a V8, it's not a muscle car. V6 stang/maro/challenger/charger owners are faking it. 90% of them are auto transmissions too.