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Old 08-25-2014, 10:24 AM   #40
stugray
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Originally Posted by paulca View Post
To you US guys a manual is a special thing, so you go on the interweb and you research and research and come back with all these fancy and all but superfluous techniques so you can brag about them to your mates and say you "can drive stick the hard way".
Or maybe for SOME of us US guys, we have 30 years experience driving a stick including the #1 worst shifting car in history: The Porsche 914 ( I have owned 3 of them). And still have no idea why one would need to double clutch a modern trans.
I even tried it this morning, and all I can say is "waste of effort". My shifts are smooth enough without complicating matters.
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