The only way I would buy a manual trans nowdays is if I lived where there
wasn't much traffic, not many hills and it was a sports car.

Otherwise there really isn't any valid argument to purchasing a stick shift.
Like the other poster said the difference in mileage is nil and in traffic
you aren't having to do a workout by pushing in the clutch pedal all the
time. It may sound trivial but if your in traffic with a stick for any
significant amount of time then you will feel it in your muscles.

With an auto you don't have to worry about somebody stealing your car and
push starting it. You can also hook up a remote start/alarm safely with the
auto. One last thing.....you don't have to worry about not setting your
parking brake and coming out to find your car has rolled down the hill into
somebodys house, car or anything else.


"Rabid G" <a_rabid_g@nopam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:x_qRc.7507$nx2.1755@newsread2.news.atl.earthl ink.net...
> Hi, I just found this newsgroup and I was hoping someone here could help
me
> on an age old question.
> Stickshift or Automatic?
>
> I'm going to buy a Honda Civic 04 soon and I would very much appreciate
any
> insight into this. One thing that keeps me from better being able to
decide
> my self is the plain fact that I don't know how to drive stickshift (yet).
> So I wouldn't know if it would annoy me by having to constantly shift
gears
> from block to block. Some other factors are that I live in Washington DC
> where there is virtually no open road, I'm a 20 year old college student,
> and in about a week I'm going to be moving out on my own (To Silver
Spring,
> Still commuting to DC and back.). Also, for those who don't know, DC can
> have pretty bad traffic during certain parts of the day (Rush Hour).
>
> I don't know if I'm actually going to want to do engine modifications. And
> if I ever do make egine mods it'll probably happen about 2 years down the
> road (So I guess by then I could sell the automatic anyway?). I guess my
> main question is, is the immediate fun really worth the trouble?
>
> Thanks in advance for your patience and help.
> -RG
>
>