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[Kurt Nolte]

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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