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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
Maybe it's due to some sort of coriolis effect or something produced by driving on the left side of the road, or being on the other side of the Atlantic? 'Cause it's the exact opposite over here.
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When I started driving I would not have thanked you for an auto. Changing gear was part of the pleasure, heel and toe changes, double de-cluching, racing changes, clutchless changes.
Then at 42 I got my first automatic, just as I started 170 miles a day of motorway driving, with huge traffic jams through Glasgow, morning and night. Since then my driving has never really been for pleasure. Busy city driving, traffic jams and endless queues. Why would I want a manual for that? Even now, most of my driving is in busy traffic. The Jazz may be a city car, but with my noisy gearbox, lack if first gear finesse, and a tiny four pot motor it does not give me any pleasure in traffic.