cchu518
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Don’t be, it’s just a stupid, overpriced piece of metal. Health and people you love is way more important.
I drive a black 1997 F-150 with a five speed manual transmission. I figure millenials have not seen a clutch pedal before, so the chances of theft are lower.
there's people after the Boomer generation that know how to drive a vehicle with a manual transmission.
You do know that the earliest millennials learned to drive in the mid 90s, right? Lots of manuals back then, especially on beater teenage cars. I only had one friend who had an automatic.I drive a black 1997 F-150 with a five speed manual transmission. I figure millenials have not seen a clutch pedal before, so the chances of theft are lower.
Please explain how you did a +900 mile trip only topping off once.Actually, I'm glad of it. Most of the people my age are retired, and we will be turning to the millenials for information and service help. All too often the "older generation" might have issues with a younger generation simply because we knew them as children.
As for my Ford, just using the manual transmission gives me two extra miles per gallon. Granted, that's not a big bonus for trips locally, but I once drove to N. Carolina to see my dad. Staying on "the slab" and dropping the gears into fifth was pretty much a ride at 1,400 RPM. I stopped for gas only once, and that was just to top off.
On the other hand, she gets like 36 miles to the gallon on a pretty full size car.
I never get close to that. But it's mostly city driving or hilly\mountains and it's the 6 cyl