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Kurt Nolte
syncronized_turbo at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jan 8 10:06:40 EST 2007
Why was AWD important? Speaking from personal experience, AWD's grippy
nature has made me a more aggressive, inattentive driver...
-Kurt
Lee Levitt wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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