Thread: First Road Trip
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Old 08-07-2007, 11:00 AM
Kelvin Kelvin is offline
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Originally Posted by Nomake Wan
Honestly, I don't know. A manual would be neat and all. But I'm serious about that traffic stuff. Just driving my dad's Contour (manual) to drop my siblings off at school was a real pain in the butt 'cause of all the traffic going the same way. Sure the Contour isn't as plush as the SVX, but that isn't my point. It's that I was always "1st-clutch-gas-clutch-coast-brake-1st-clutch-gas..." and that got really annoying after a little while.
You must have never owned a stickshift. After a few months you don't even think about shifting. You just enjoy faster acceleration, more control, better mpg, and having a lot more fun.
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