Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Pastor JW]

On Monday, May 09, 2011 12:17:00 pm Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

Well, I can't burn rubber at all with mine but it does go from 0 to 60 in 4.73 
seconds and I average 31 mpg.  It is a 6 speed manual, four cylinders, and has 
all the factory United States mandated smog control functions still on the 
car, its even legal in California!  Nothing special, just a bog standard 
straight off the showroom floor, sold in the US, 2010 vehicle.  I do understand 
the same car in the rest of the world is a mite quicker and has few more 
horsepower than we in the US are allowed to have but I'm very happy with what 
I drive. I drive a nice little family sedan with leather interior.  I actually 
did entertain buying the car in a different American country as I could get 
twin turbos there but stayed 40 miles south of that border and bought in the 
United States.  Still, what I enjoy most is evenings on my old Harley and nice 
mountain roads!  ... also a manual but just five speed.

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