Automatic and Shift,Compare and Contrast?

Question

i looking for a car,well i don't know how to drive yet,won't be 15 till next year.but i just looking at cars and stuff like that;you know curious.

but i want to the difference between shift and automatic,i mean whats the difference,what is it exactly?please give me detailed answers?

Answer 1

There has been some detailed answer about the driving of both transmissions,but one thing i will say and i didn't realise for a long time is that different cars run differently on both boxes and shouldn't be classed all the same,an example is i drove an auto for a while and it seemed boring and stayed stick but years later my wife let me buy one of my dream cars which was a Nissan Skyline but auto ,to my surprise and so much that i bought another one after that car,it was great fun and with driving other sporty cars the auto set up is way different than the boring auto i drove before these,They offer instant power when the pedal is down and not a sit back and wait experience.And with the RWD say overdrive setup and power button to allow redline gear changes and rev hold buttons to allow revs in each gear to be held by you all adds up to an exciting experience.

And with triptronic and new Auto setups in new sports cars it would be wrong to class all auto's as rubbish and offers no control over the car in fact in many cases its gives more.  

Answer 2

automatic you dont have to shift gears.  just from park to reverse or w/e.  automatic cars only have two pedals: gas and brakes.  manual have three pedals: clutch, gas and brake.  to shift gears in a manual, you have to push the clutch and then shift gears, depending on how fast you are going.  manual transmissions tend to be cheaper, depending on the car. (i.e. if it were the same car, only one was automatic and one was manual, the manual would be cheaper.)  usually only trucks and sport cars like mustangs or whatever have manual.  i would go with an automatic.  manuals can be a bit confusing at first.

hope this helps!

Answer 3

The others have given you a lot of good information. Everyone should at least know how to drive a manual. Let's say you're out with one of your friends and their car is a stick. Something happens to them, breaks a leg, gets beat up, whatever. The paramedics show up,and haul him off to the hospital. The battery on your phone is dead, and your friend has theirs in the ambulance. How do you get home? What happens to their car? Get the picture?

Buy whatever style you want,but knowing how to drive a stick-shift car is always a good idea.

Answer 4

It is caled Stick Shift or Manual transmission.

Manual cars are lighter, faster, handle better, get better gas mileage, are cheaper to maintain and buy, and more fun to drive.

It is when you shift the gears yourself using the clutch.

If you have no concept of gears and transmissions and rpms and engine, then get the automatic.

The automatic transmission makes it easy and boring. All you have to do is switch to D and it would automatically switch through the gears for you while you drive.

Answer 5

I'm going to write a bit of a narrative to explain how someone drives both

For a shift/manual/stick you get in your car, turn the key, push in the clutch and move the shifter in an L or upside L shape to get to the R (reverse) gear, release the clutch pedal, you back it out of your driveway, press the clutch pedal and brake pedal, move the shifter to 1st gear which is usually moving it up, left, and up again. Once you reach say 10mph you push in the clutch and pull the shifter towards you for 2nd gear or possibly even a higher one if you aren't planing on accelerating too much more. When you are almost near the end of your street you are going to push in the clutch and brake pedals, shift down into 1st after looking both was and then let off the clutch and brake to take the turn. At this point you repeat all of these steps multiple times.

In an automatic car you get in the car, turn the key, push in the brake pedal and move the shifter directly back into reverse, release the brake, back out of your driveway, brake, move the shifter back into drive, let off the brake, drive down your street till you get to the stop sign then brake, look both ways and turn.

If you notice the first paragraph is twice as long as the second one and thats how much more effort you'll have to put into driving if you get a manual.