from Car and Driver

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/10q3/save_the_manuals!-car_and_driver



Like me, you may have noticed an alarming paucity of vehicles offering fully manual transmissions. Even sports-car stalwart Ferrari, of gated-shifter fame, isn’t providing a three-pedal option on the new 458 Italia. Equally distressing, I read in the Washington Post that our nation’s hard-texting youth have pronounced driving seriously lame, with only about 30 percent of 16-year-olds having acquired driving licenses as of 2008. I can’t help but think these things are related.

If folks learned to operate the entire car, not just the steering wheel and occasionally the brakes, I’d bet they’d like driving better. If they knew the sense of control imparted by that third pedal, I’d bet they would strive for its mastery. If they knew the excitement that accompanied a perfectly timed heel-toe downshift, I can guarantee they’d be hooked.

You know what we need? We need a crusade. We need to save the manuals! Not only are manual transmissions often more fuel-efficient than their two-pedal counterparts, you also can’t text while operating one. So let’s lobby carmakers to produce more of these things because they’re safer and more frugal, and let’s not tell them that they’re way more fun. Let’s train our offspring in the ancient ways of the stick shift. Let all of us knights of the clutch pedal drive our manual-equipped cars to Washington and pop ’em in front of Barry O’s house.

Won’t you join the cause?


show you knob!!!!



Dewors les DSG pis les palettes au volant, les totomatiques, pour un feeling, ca prend un baton

Le mien:

On est juste 2!

je sors tantôt avec l'appareil!

J'en ai 2 dans l'driveway, mais y fait trop frette...

J'en ai un mais il est remisé pour l'hiver dans la cour avec une housse Simonez par dessus et ficelé comme un saucisson

Manuel + AWD = bonheur!

édit:

oui, je sais François, elle est pas propre