Most car chasing scenes in movies are using manual transmission cars, because shifting gear is part of the action, amirite?

Absolutely aggressive shifting is needed how else will they add filler

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'm waiting to see what an electric car chase in a movie is going to be like.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think one of the Johnny English movies had one

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's an electric wheelchair

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There was an electric wheelchair too but one of them, i cant remember which but i think the 3rd one, Johnny was chasing some lady who was in an ev

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It'll be flashing back and forth between each car's estimated range. It's more about who gets farther.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

See K2000.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If it's realistic, quiet. Air rush and squealing tires.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

With a slight buzzing of the electric motors. Though supposedly Dodge this next year is suppose to come out with an electric car that has fake noise.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'm sure it'll be about seeing how far they can get before they suffer a tragic braking failure with how much energy they're pumping into them. It certainly won't be about who has better lines and can maintain grip in turns because that is just not cinematic.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Like two RC cars racing, but super zoomed in and with motion blur

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Bought an automatic, and now to impress I just change the radio channels

by Anonymous 1 year ago

So every cut is to you changing to a different station?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'll watch it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Along with costume changes to match the music!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Baby Driver head cannon lol

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Also turn down the AC for better acceleration

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Most car chases of late that come my mind right now are set in Europe where driving stick is still pretty common.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Manual transmission is far better for really aggressive driving

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Hasn't been true since like the early 2000s

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There's a scene in American Assasin where the main character pretends to manually shift in an automatic car. They don't even try and hide the automatic shifter or make it look more like a manual

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Also because trying to go quick in an automatic is like trying to do sprints in wellies full of mud.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I feel when the driver picks their car, it makes sense. When they steal a random car, which happens to be manual, it breaks immersion.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Manual is more common

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not around here, I don't think manual transmissions have been more common in over 30 years.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Is there any country other than the US (and presumably Canada) where over 95% of cars are automatic?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Japan

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Australia - not sure if it's quite 95% though

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Apparently, only 3% of car sales in Australia are manual now. It's a dying art. Electric vehicles will make it moot anyway.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Are most cars still manual in Europe, Asia, etc? If so... why?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They're cheaper

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They are more fun

by Anonymous 1 year ago

People don't see it as necessary because everyone knows how to drive a manual

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The countries that mainly use manual use it because they're set in their ways and don't want to change. There's not much of a logical reason to use manual these days.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

manuals are cheaper to buy, cheaper to maintain, have a much longer expected lifespan and give you more controll of the car. there is literally no valid pro argument for automatics, so why fix something that isn't broken?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Your points are outdated and no longer true. If we were still in the 90s you would be correct - it's 2023. Automatics are just as reliable. Maintenance can go either way - someone who is bad at driving manual will burn out the clutch. As for pro automatic arguments - better fuel mileage, easier to operate, faster shifts. And this is coming from someone who drives a 6-speed manual. A human can't match the performance and efficient of a computer shifting for us.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And yet I'll still grab that automatic. Sort of like how I keep getting automatic windows despite the fact manual windows are cheaper to buy, cheaper to maintain and give you more control of the window.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Is there any country other than the US (and presumably Canada — No.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Dunno where you live but it most definitely isn't since about 2000

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The cars people steal in movies are more likely to be manual. The car can't know exactly what gear you want to be in just from pushing a gas pedal.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

... Where?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not really, only in America and Japan automatic transmissions are common. In the rest of the world it was about 20% (even less outside of Europe) for the last decades, slowly reaching 50% just around now with electric and hybrid cars becoming more common

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There's a reason all professional racing cars are manual.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Theyre semi automatic, if they were manuals they would lose a ton of laptime cause of the time it takes to shift

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>'semi automatic' so manual

by Anonymous 1 year ago

No, semi automatic. Shifting with buttons instead of the stick. The car does the actual shifting u just tell it to.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

that's the important part to maximize control and traction in racing. having control over deciding the current gear. Not the mechanism behind it You'd need a lot of machine learning and very high quality computer vision to replicate this human behaviour, at which point you just have self driving cars. The optimal shift depends on the road layout

by Anonymous 1 year ago

???? Que Sequential gearboxes might not be automatics but they sure as hell aren't traditional six speed manuals lol

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I didn't say they were.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Don't forget handheld walkie talkies held sideways, when a hands-free Bluetooth would suffice

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yes, but very few cars have 26 forward gears like in Fast & Furious.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And airbags won't work during crash

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Also because most cars are manual transmission.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I don't remember that being the case in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World 🤔

by Anonymous 1 year ago

for best control over traction, you'd always use semi automatic transmission. that's why race cars are not fully automatic

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Or you know they're the most commenly available

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It is real driving. If it was a random car in the chase then realistically it should be auto now.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I almost ordered a manual with my last car but it would cost more 🤣

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The reverse of what it used to be. Auto was a luxury.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"Let's see if these bastards can do 90." Learned stick in high school and liked to say that right before I shifted into 5th.

by Anonymous 1 year ago