Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Li. I have always recommended that you buy a cheap manual transmission model to practice first, and then switch to an automatic transmission after you are proficient. But as a long-term use of the family nature of the car, whether the manual transmission can be bought, is not practical, only the owner of the manual transmission has the most right to speak. After driving a manual transmission for 12 years, I sold the car and replaced it with an automatic transmission, and I realized the following 3 truths, all of which are true.
- Manual transmissions will be phased out of the market into regional models
Two or three years ago, I always felt that manual transmission models could not be eliminated, at most they would become niche models, but there was still a certain amount of ownership in the market. However, with the opening of the new energy vehicle price war this year, the new energy models have become cheaper and cheaper, cheap enough to eat away at the market of manual transmission models, many people who buy manual transmission models are nothing more than worried about the high fuel consumption of automatic transmission, and want to buy a manual transmission to save some fuel, their own car purchase budget is not enough, and the manual transmission model is relatively cheap and just affordable, so it is the second best thing, gritting its teeth and buying a manual transmission back will be used.
But now the price of new energy is getting lower and lower, and it is a kind of model that only charges and does not burn oil, and the cost of using the car is very low. In addition, manual transmission models are inherently difficult to drive, which is relatively unfriendly to female drivers and novices, and all new energy vehicles are automatic transmission models, many people can drive as soon as they get in the car, and the power is better than that of oil cars. Therefore, manual transmission models will definitely be slowly eliminated into regional models in the future, for example, only in those places in Europe, where people do not develop trams, and in our side, they are basically new energy vehicles or automatic transmission models.
- The disadvantages of manual transmission are obvious
The advantage of manual transmission models is that the cost of fuel-saving cars is low, but its disadvantages are also very obvious, that is, it is more difficult to drive, and ordinary people really can't drive. If you have a family car, you buy a manual transmission model, then it will appear in the following I will tell you about the situation, after buying back this car is only you can drive, usually when you are not driving can only be left there idle, even if it is rotten no one can drive. The female driver in the house, the person who just got the driver's license in the family didn't dare to drive at all, and even said that she couldn't drive at all. Let me tell you why I sold the manual transmission after 12 years and switched to an automatic transmission.
For 12 years, I have been driving manual transmissions, because I am the only one in our family who has a driver's license, and I am the only one who can drive. Later, more and more people at home had driver's licenses, and more and more people could drive, only to find that they couldn't drive my car at all, and they were in a state where they couldn't use a car. Usually I don't drive or I have something to do why let them drive me, they don't dare to drive at all, I can only put the car at home to take a ride out, sometimes I'm not at home, this car at home for ten days and half a month and no one dares to move, even the wind and rain family to pick up the child can only ride the tram to go, obviously there is a car at home, but there is nothing to do. The disadvantage of manual transmission was too obvious, so I switched to automatic transmission.
- Manual transmissions are not suitable as a family car
Manual transmission models are not suitable as a family car, it is only suitable for you as a production tool, drive this car every day to commute to work, or run business, the premise is not to get stuck in traffic, as a means of transportation, this is my car for 12 years to sum up such a car experience. If your car is purely family, you usually take your wife and children to travel, go shopping, these scenes are not suitable.
Because almost all of today's manual transmission models are low-profile cars used by car manufacturers to lower the starting price, and they are all low-end cars that use manual transmission, this kind of car is too small and has poor power, and there is no comfort at all. A family car must meet the three rigid requirements of space, configuration and comfort, otherwise it is better to have nothing, and the manual transmission model cannot meet these three requirements.
In general, let's practice and buy a cheap manual transmission car to practice our hands, but if we buy it as a family car, it is really not suitable. I've suffered losses in this area myself, so I don't think about manual transmission anymore when I buy a car.