What transmission do you have? 2012+

[roxy1]

Originally Posted by ron3

Is it true that 94 % of car shoppers would not even consider a strait shift. If so ask yourself why!

depends on the car and what is offered. I actually came from a fiat 500, and the take rate on manual transmissions was much, much higher than 6%. based on the sales before the Abarth came along (which is manual only), it appears the manuals were sold at somewhere between 30%-45%.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by yougojay

I believe there is a sharp rise in cases of bullying of auto. drivers by manual drivers in this country !

I have started a Faceliftbook page 'Auto Drivers Unite Against Manual Bullying'

Seriously (me? ) I want the ease of the Auto, and the U340 Trans. / 1NZ-FE Engine combo is long-lasting from what I have read here.

I love driving manual cars, I have driven many for long periods of time. They are fun & really add to the driving experience.

Bought the Yaris L Auto with the intent to keep it forever...Just didn't want to shift anymore.

I'll bet a 5 speed Yaris is a blast to drive, if I ever get the chance to drive one I am going to take. Small cars are a BLAST to drive with a manual. I taught a lot of young kids to drive a manual with an 80's Chevy Chevette. They were really fun to drive and were a lot more peppy than their Auto. counterparts. It was on a big car lot at my dads Chevy dealer...they always caught on fast once they got used to how a manual works.

I think both are fine. In fact, the fact that Toyota's way of doing a hybrid system (as opposed to Honda's way) doesn't allow for a manual transmission bugs me less than it did a year or so ago. I just don't want manual transmissions to disappear from the market at mainstream price points.

[yougojay]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I think both are fine. In fact, the fact that Toyota's way of doing a hybrid system (as opposed to Honda's way) doesn't allow for a manual transmission bugs me less than it did a year or so ago. I just don't want manual transmissions to disappear from the market at mainstream price points.

I don't want manual transmissions to disappear from the market at all. I would always like the option to purchase one if I so desired. I really doubt they will

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by yougojay

I don't want manual transmissions to disappear from the market at all. I would always like the option to purchase one if I so desired. I really doubt they will

[ron3]

I agree!!

[nookandcrannycar]

I love to drive, and I keep thinking about Paul Walker never being able to drive again. Christine Ha is a writer and chef. She won season 3 of MasterChef in 2012. She's 34. She suffers from Neuromyelitis Optica. She started losing her sight at age 20 in 1999, and by 2007 she was almost completely blind. She has lived in Houston, the L.A. metro, Austin, and New York. She wrote the H-TOWN DIARY (title of the section is set in all caps) column in the current (December 2013) Houstonia (magazine). This runs for parts of 3 pages, but only 4 sentences are set off from the rest of the text, enlarged by probably a factor of 10, and put in orange print instead of black. These 4 sentences are the 4 best sentences in the piece......

"When I'm asked what I miss most about being able to see, I always say--without hesitation--driving. I MISS HANDLING A STICK SHIFT, the sun blazing down through my open sunroof, The Cure and Wu-Tang blasting from my speakers. I miss running errands by myself. I miss my independence."

(I added the all caps at the beginning of the second sentence ).

[ron3]

WOW!

[nookandcrannycar]

^^^^^ Yeah, I would think it would be harder for her than for someone who lost their sight before learning to drive, as that person wouldn't know what he or she was missing. I don't know if this makes any sense, but one of the things I like about Texas (and Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Alabama off the top of my head) is noticing, for lack of a better phrase, an 'aura of gratitude'. I see it in about half of the members of my family in Northern California, but not in many other people there. See it more in Southern California, and in the Sierras. I know my grandfather thoroughly believed in that quote from Abraham Lincoln -- 'People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be'. He never took my grandmother for granted. It took him 7 years to convince her to marry him, but when he died they had been married for 62 years.

[ron3]

It would be nice to live in a simpler time?

[JustPassinThru]

Automatic.

I say this as someone who's had nothing but manuals for forty years; who has a trucker's license and has driven 9-speed Fullers.

My 2009 had a manual; but between my arthritic hip and the drive-by-wire controls, I much, MUCH prefer the automatic in my 2012.

One problem: I do NOT like the auto idle advance when the lights or heater fan is on. I want a SLOW idle when I shift; and it's something I have to think about when I'd rather not worry. With a manual and a clutch...didn't matter. With an auto, with the computer feeding gas when I'm shifting or stopped at a light...not so good.

[yarisgeo13]

Auto, it's easier in the city

[ron3]

I think the manual trans. is basicly a thing of the past sort of like a house without indoor plumbing. lol

[mr9865]

Bringing up this old thread because today is my 3 year anniversary of my 2012 Yaris 24800 miles. Only issue I have had is the horrible rattles in the winter months.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by mr9865

Bringing up this old thread because today is my 3 year anniversary of my 2012 Yaris 24800 miles. Only issue I have had is the horrible rattles in the winter months.

Congratulations ! I hope your anniversary day turned out better than my 8 year anniversary day a few months ago re my 2007 Yaris....I got in a fender bender that day .