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Automotive News & Views The Future Of The Manual Transmission
5807 messages, Last post on Nov 26, 2009 at 7:20 AM
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Replying to: boaz47 (Sep 25, 2008 12:28 pm) Even the delivery vans in Paris are stick shift. Long live the manual!
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Replying to: nippononly (Sep 25, 2008 12:40 pm) The only other country I would ever be interested in as far as moving is Spain. It is also a place where I could see using public transportation. Then who cares what transmission they use?
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Replying to: boaz47 (Sep 25, 2008 12:53 pm)  Here in California, the suburbs extend out 60, 80 miles from every city, effectively eliminating all places one might go for a fun weekend drive. 
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Replying to: nippononly (Sep 25, 2008 12:59 pm) The weekend drive is quickly becoming politically incorrect in our state. My family used to take weekend drives where there were places to drive to just for the beauty of what we could see. Today most of those places are housing tracks, industrial complexes and entertainment centers. Todays families drive to get somewhere period. Go to a party and sit around a table with a group of friends, non auto enthusiasts, and tell them you like to drive for pleasure and they will look at you like you lit a cigarette in Church. "What do you do for fun Nippon?" Oh I get in my car and take a two or three hour drive." What they hear is, "I like to burn gas for two or three hours just because I can," Drive the same two hours at Sea World, for me, or where ever you can go for you, and they will sit back and smile even if you had to spend another 200 bucks to walk around an amusement park on top of your gas.
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Replying to: boaz47 (Sep 25, 2008 1:20 pm) Well, I do weekend drives several times a year and often extend business trips a day or two on one end or the other, just "to burn gas for two or three days, just because". . . I like to. And, yeah, I can. Anyone who doesn't like it can stuff it. In addition, I usually take one trip a year just to drive, and it's not a few hours or a few days. It's generally 9 days and sometimes longer. In 2007 I made it up to Skagway, AK, and Dawson, YT -- 7400 miles, as I recall. The road is my home & my therapy. The fact that it's currently not politically correct just makes it that much better. |
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Replying to: cdnpinhead (Sep 25, 2008 4:49 pm) Is it your opinion this is a healthy attitude? Should more people use your method of therapy? But remember I used a hypothetical of societal pressure. I used to love the good old days when I could drive my 426 Hemi and stomp my foot to the floor and lay rubber dust all over the little Chevy in the lane next to me. But we are being told that there is a fuel crisis and we should be saving gas. Automotive enthusiasts may or may not believe this but we are a small percentage of the automotive consumers. I am still trying to picture 17 million new car buyers being told by their sales men, "the weekend drive is back. Buy this car and you will never have to worry how much gas you burn. In fact fuel mileage isn't important, burn all you want and if people don't like it?" You sound like a person I would like to have coffee with. But do it before some tree hugger has you stoned.
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Replying to: cdnpinhead (Sep 25, 2008 4:49 pm) Oh it only counts if you rent a Hummer for the trip. |
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Replying to: boaz47 (Sep 25, 2008 12:28 pm) That's all Renault/Nissan seems to be sending us.
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Replying to: ateixeira (Sep 26, 2008 9:28 am)
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Replying to: nippononly (Sep 26, 2008 9:48 am) |
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