You can move a car using only the clutch, and that’s Step #1. That’s the “bite point,” your new BFF.
As is the emergency brake when parking, manual cars don’t have a “park gear” like automatics.
Read in online at Autonet.
Lastly, don’t be intimidated. Europe is the opposite of North America in that the majority of cars there are manual; so there’s no way an entire continent is better than you, you got this!
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Never understood why CarGuys take so much heat for being so into cars… they’re organized and have good time management, they’re finishers with multi-faceted minds.
And even though I’m female, the term is still CarGUY.
Maybe the brightest trait, is that this is all done with an infectious enthusiasm.
Blog tag = CarGuy
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Gone are the days of the Pacers and K-cars. No matter which make & model you choose today, you can’t really buy a “bad car.”
Be mindful of these 3 points, and spend the majority of your budget on the engine – the thing that makes a car a car. The rest is styling.
Read it online at Autonet.ca
What it comes down to is the styling of the car, and I (or any other auto journalist) can’t tell you what to like; only you can know that.
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Read in online at Autonet.ca
For this week’s column, I wrote about a new type of website – don’t like how someone is driving? Take a photo of their licence plate and car, upload it to one of these websites, and broadcast what you think for all the world to see.
This is dirty, and really, who are you to judge?
From a distance, someone driving to the hospital while under medical duress, might appear the same as a drunk driver. Not linking to those sites.
All so you can what, be a tattle-tale? A budget vigilante?
and:
2 of my favourite internet lines – ‘the internet is forever’ & ‘Google never forgets’
I was in Oregon with Acura when this printed, so being 3 hours behind I woke up to discover this column was a topic on the radio show AM 640!
(non-Toronto people, this is one of the most popular talk-radio shows)
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