My wife drove the Boxster for the first time

[Ciao]

My 13 Year old has been practicing for his DL test in the 986.

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by Ciao

My 13 Year old has been practicing for his DL test in the 986.

Manual or tip?

[Ciao]

Originally Posted by Frodo

Manual or tip?

Manual; I told him if he learns manual everything else is a piece of cake

[jdlmodelt]

I've let several others try out the Boxster. My wife and daughter drove it home partway the first day I owned it. I've let my Son take it to school a handful of times. My wife took it out a few times and then decided she needed her own convertible and settled on a 2007 Jaguar XK. That's a sporty machine. My son prefers his 1986 Jaguar XJ6 (classy).

[boxfix]

My wife's nickname "Mary Andretti" has been driving our 2003 986 forever. She loves it. She has not drive my 1973 911 however.....

The Boxster is her car actually, she also has a pristine 2001 Saab Aero wagon for carrying more stuff. She loves the Boxster on the mountain roads around us.

When I met her she had just bought a 1968 Camaro with a 350 and 4 on the floor.....she has always had a stick along with mini vans and SUVs which had autos.

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by Ciao

Manual; I told him if he learns manual everything else is a piece of cake

True. Still, I take my hat off to him. All these years later, I recall being nervous enough taking my driver's test that I'm glad I didn't have to worry about smooth clutching, misshifts, etc, in addition to 'just driving.' (I did my test in a '65 Buick Skylark, an automatic.)

That said, my kids used my '96 manual transmission Camry when they took their test. (Admittedly a pretty forgiving/easy-to-master clutch, but still...) And neither has owned an automatic yet

[Porsche9]

Nice to see new drivers learning to drive a manual. In our household and our just married daughter’s household there are a total of six cars and only one is a automatic. My daughter learned on the Boxster.

[Ciao]

Originally Posted by Porsche9

Nice to see new drivers learning to drive a manual. In our household and our just married daughter’s household there are a total of six cars and only one is a automatic. My daughter learned on the Boxster.

"Save the Manual!" Only 20% of all cars in the US are manual. Like handwriting, it is a dying skill.

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by Ciao

"Save the Manual!" Only 20% of all cars in the US are manual. Like handwriting, it is a dying skill.

Wow...unfortunately that number seems surprisingly high to me.

When I got that manual Camry, it was the only non-automatic on the lot. And that was 22 years ago. I would think these days that one-sidedness would be even more pronounced, but maybe not.

One of my kids told me that he's heard young drivers refer to automatic transmissions that have shifters in the center console (like that old Skylark) as "stick shifts."