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[Lee Levitt]

Taka,

I'm generally in agreement with you regarding the manual 
transmission. If he was interested in sedans, we would have gone 
that route. However, he really wanted a wagon, both for the 
utility and the slightly better rearward visibility.

And I wanted a slow, safe, relatively large car for him. I don't 
have much fact behind this, but my gut tells me that the C4 A6 may 
handle accidents better than later model VWs...

He's a teenager and he has ADD. The latter drives his likelihood 
of accidents up by a factor of 200-300%, and a sporty car with a 
manual would only accentuate this...

If a Volvo 240 were available with AWD... :)

Lee

On Mon Jan 08 06:36:34 PST 2007, Taka Mizutani 
<t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a little disappointed- I would have hoped that you would 
> teach your
> son to drive manual transmission and have him get a manual 
> transmission
> car!
> 
> I feel that this is a useful skill that a lot of people are 
> lacking these
> days.
> 
> I would have gotten an A4 chassis Golf/Jetta 2.slow if you're 
> sticking w/
> VAG- safe car, relatively easy to work on and fairly simple, 
> compatible with
> VAG-COM that I'm sure you already have and also relatively new. 
> With a
> manual
> transmission, they're not totally bad, they have great brakes and 
> available
> ESP on the later cars. Not reliable but a lot simpler than an 
> S-car. :-)
> 
> Taka
>