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Old 10-May-2008, 04:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Neverfly View Post
Exactly. There are a lot of traffic situations where slamming on the brakes is the worst thing to do- you need to gun it.

This is part of the reason I hate Automatics too. Standard tranny all the way...


[ETA: Tranny is transmission. Not a strangely dressed passanger* (which are almost common in Austin...)]
Ditto on the manual trans! One of the criteria when I go looking for a car!

*Like this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cochran
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