JasoNeon said:
I tell you what, I just want to say that you two have some big brass ones to even drive in NYC and LA. I've never been to either place, but if I did I just know I'd kill someone or be killed. I live in W.V. and the traffic here pisses me off so bad sometimes that......arrrrr, I just couldn't handle a big city.
Jason
I'll tell you what, you definitely need to know how to drive to drive in Manhattan. You can take things like traffic laws and rules and throw them right out the window, cause they don't apply. It really is everyman for himself. But the thing is, it's a lot of shooting out from a stop light, cutting in front of somebody to get position, slamming on your breaks to keep from hitting pedestrians, weaving in between tourists... you have to accelerate really really hard without ever topping thirty miles an hour, and you're only gonna go max a hundred or a hundred fifty yards between having to stop at red lights, but it's absolutely crucial to accelerate enough to pass everybody else in those hundred yards, or else you'll literally never move anywhere. That just doesn't lend itself to driving a manual transmission car. As for opening it up on the open road, I only really drive in the city or on Long Island, so the only times I'm ever drviving when you really can open it up is after midnight. 99% percent of the time, it's accelerate up to 70, slam on the breaks, go at fifteen for a while, back up to speed for fifteen seconds or so, slam on the breaks again... I used to drive a Jetta with a five speed, and I just couldn't do it. No matter how much better it is, it's just not practical here to drive a manual transmission.
Now, if I had money, I'd get the electronically controlled manual on the new BMW M3, but, I don't, so I guess it's gotta be a WRX with a slushbox.