Long story short: I’m (24M) American, and I’m visiting my long-distance Romanian boyfriend for the first time soon. In Romania, most cars are manual - including all the ones owned by my boyfriend’s family (I’ll be staying with them). I’ve never driven a manual before. His dad told me he can give me a quick lesson, and that I’m welcome to use their cars if I want; otherwise, I can rent an automatic. I don’t have access to any manual cars here in the U.S. to practice on, so I’m not sure what to do.
I mean, you say that, but I’ve driven a modern Porsche with all of those thing electric, and it’s absolutely still fun as hell. Sure, the steering isn’t quite as communicative as older models, but it’s still VERY good. They’ve done an incredible job with the feedback dynamics.