Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 20:03 +0100, Colin Law wrote: 
> On 9 May 2011 19:53, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
> > On Monday 09 May 2011 08:18:37 pm Douglas S. Saylor wrote:
> >> Give the AVERAGE automobile driver
> >> (cost, repairs aside) the option to have manual or automatic
> >> transmission MOST will choose NOT to choose gear selection: automatic is
> >> preferred by most (I HATE automatic transmission BTW)
> >
> > Sorry. Give the _american_ average automobile driver (maybe UK or Australia
> > too). Here in Switzerland it would be the opposite.
> 
> Also in the UK most would choose manual.  We don't want any sissy
> things like automatics here.

I can burn rubber in second gear, with a hopped up 350 V8, in my 1977
Chevy pickup, coupled to a good automatic. Somehow, somewhere, all the
smog control gadgets disappeared... like magic. Beats me! With the cost
of fuel now, I'm afraid to start it. <shrugs> Ric


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