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[Jason Kohls]

I second that.  I took out a Mazdaspeed3 on the weekend for a "spin"
-- I was churping tires , nose-diving and torque-steering my way back
to the dealer lot when I realised that I *need* AWD and FWD + loads of
grunt = me in the hospital.

On 1/8/07, Kurt Nolte <syncronized_turbo at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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