ive been driving in my car.

ShineDog · Post by **ShineDog** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:21 am

driving test passed! whoop whoop!

fear my tiny ford fiesta, 10 years old and held together by delicious rust.

pointless post, but you all need to give me congratulatory hugs anyways.

Heffaloop · Post by **Heffaloop** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:31 am

No hugs, but I will congratulate you!

I like driving ^___^

ShineDog · Post by **ShineDog** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:32 am

awww, thanks ^_^

and all you americans get to do it with automatic cars, so i figure it must be easier for you

edit - woopsie, your australian. not american. curse mine eyes!

Heffaloop · Post by **Heffaloop** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:36 am

Yes, I know how to drive a manual car, and I prefer them to automatics.

War · Post by **War** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:44 am

Except that mine keeps slipping out of reverse gear.

*mutters*

Congratulations on passing.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:52 am

Congrats.

And I took my driving test on a manual; I've been driving manual since the late 80's. I just bought my first automatic, because my fiance' can't drive manual.

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:36 am

I did my test on an automatic, and my car is too, but I really wanted a manual... damn automatic take away about 2 seconds in the quarter mile... gonna get a bike soon, so whatever though.

David Stripe · Post by **David Stripe** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:10 am

Freedom is sweet. Congrats.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:31 am

Yup driving is always great. I can't drive stick yet, though I'm gonna start to learn.

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:34 am

I don't like driving a manual so much anymore. those children were awfuly sad when I crushed their gran. And I don't want to do that kind of thing. At least, not till the heat dies down...

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:56 am

I'm not even sure I've seen a car with automatic.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:32 am

YarpsDat wrote:I'm not even sure I've seen a car with automatic.

Are you serious? (and if you are, how the heck did that come to be?)

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:41 am

YarpsDat wrote:I'm not even sure I've seen a car with automatic.

I have. They scare me. A lot.

No car should be the master of its own gears! It's wrong, WRONG! >.<

Oh, and congratulations on the licence! Ever feel like touring the Kingdom be sure to stop by Richmond, we've got a park filed with deer ^___^

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:43 am

rkolter wrote:
YarpsDat wrote:I'm not even sure I've seen a car with automatic.
Are you serious? (and if you are, how the heck did that come to be?)

Well, quite serious. I did see a couple, but just a couple.
Automatic gears are quite a rare thing in Poland.
I'm not really sure why. I think it just sticks: everybody's driving manual, so you're taught using manual, and hence you buy manual, and that's why everybody's driving manual.

I practiced and passed the exam on manual, so if I had any desire to own a car I'd get manual too. They are more reliable, and stuff.
(Well, either that, or I'd get one of the hybrid drive cars, and I think they only come with automatic)

Jeffy · Post by **Jeffy** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:48 am

heffaloop wrote:Yes, I know how to drive a manual car, and I prefer them to automatics.

i do too, although my '98 Contour (standard) is far more fun to drive than my dad's 2003 Firebird (standard) since in the Firebird the shifting is so damn tight and close together it's easy to go from second gear to fifth, while in my Contour it's just so easy to pretend i'm not driving a car that i think looks horribly stupid

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:55 am

My driving record is sad, mostly because I don't have one. I got my permit about four years ago and have yet to get a license, let alone a car.

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:14 am

I don't really like manuals; maybe because our Land Rover Discovery has the worst manual transmission on the entire planet, and there's no way I' gonna drive our other manual trans car, my dad's BMW M3.
So I yam stuck with our Ford Bronco.

To bad SMG (sequential manual gearbox, or paddle shift; like Formula One cars have) is so expensive; and only avalible on super-cars like the newest BMW M3; the Maserati Coupe GT; the Lamborghini Murcielago; and the Ferrari 575M Maranello.
I bet it's pretty fun.
Shifting with no clutch.
The Land Rover's clutch slips vey bad.
Crunch.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:35 am

I've been thinking getting a car with stick so I'd be the only one who could drive it in my family.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:01 pm

ShineDog wrote:fear my tiny ford fiesta, 10 years old and held together by delicious rust.

A Ford Fiesta? Maybe you should fear us.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:33 pm

Bah. Driving an automatic is like trying to keep an over-eager horse in check.

Driving a manual is the opposite end of the spectrum.

The most embarassing things in all those tests is stalling and rolling down the hill...

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