This movement away from standard clutch and shift in all car manufacturing
and the "wanton" of most people (especially women) just kills me.

Just another nail in the coffin of moving farther and farther away from
"being in touch"  (like the harley rider so to speak) with the machinery.

One of the things I love about the vanagon is its standard shift gear box.
It seems to give license to driving such a beast.

Difficult to stand in the way of technology, I dont know that everything
"easy" is always better.  Again you dont see many motorcyclists wanting an
auto.

To quote a favorite line from Luke Skywalker of Star Wars...."no, thats okay
R-2, I just want to keep it on "manual" for a little while....."

Doug
5speed 87 syncro
6 speed P. car 968

Lastly, when they asked the Porsche engineer why they put a 6 speed gear box
in a 3.0 liter 4cylinder broad torque powered vehicle.... the answer given
was "because Porsche drivers love to "shift".

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Collum" <collum@VERIZON.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: VW partnerships

> > On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:03 AM, Evan Martin wrote:
> >
> >> How many dual-Bus owning couples out there? Somewhat surprisingly, I
> >> can't think of even one situation where each person had their own van.
>
>
> We have a situation that's "Almost" like that.
>
> "We" own both buses but the 7 passenger is the only one she'll drive
> because it's automatic and she quit driving standards a number of years
ago.
>
> "We" also have a 2000 Beetle (automatic) ... but it's really hers ...
> heheheheh.
>
> Mike
> '84 GL 7 pass auto
> '85 GL Westy 4 spd