In this day and age, manual cars are becoming harder and harder to come across. The further we move toward an all-electric future people forget how to drive manual cars, but there are an extreme number of benefits to driving a manual car.

For starters the skills you learn are universal, after you learn for the first time you can drive any car on the market without having to worry about if you’ll be able to drive the car.

Speaking from personal experience owning a manual car can also decrease the number of distractions you face on the road, and it gives you a better driving experience.

As you drive a manual car you get a more connected feel to the car and the road. Shifting through the gears gives you a feeling that is only replicated in manual cars and is a much better driving experiment than what automatic cars can provide now. 

Other benefits of manual cars are they can help you save gas. Learning how to shift and when to shift helps you conserve a little bit of fuel since you aren’t relying on your car to do so.

In a broader sense, manual cars can be cheaper to maintain, they have to get the clutch repaired more often but they’re cheaper in the long run due to the lack of electronics that can fail.

In automatic cars, all it takes is one chip to fail and you have a massive service bill on your hands, but manual cars just have to get a new clutch ~50,000 miles.

It’s never too late to learn and it only takes around 2 to 3 days of driving to really get the hang of it, but it’s more than worth it to learn a lifelong trait that can help you in any scenario.