"Last August, I flew from Philadelphia to Ft Worth to buy my dream car: a 2002 Jeep Wrangler. TJ model, soft top, cherry red, no rust and, of course, a manual transmission.
"Of course” is, in part, tradition. Is a Wrangler really a Wrangler if it’s an automatic? No, not really – and I felt that way even though I had never driven a car with a manual transmission before. I wanted to become a member of this shrinking club: that of the stick shift driver..."
---Thanks to Lee Saloutos for the heads-up on this piece from The Guardian on manual vs. automatic transmissions. I may have the only Volvo 850 station wagon in America with a manual trans. It's the only one I've seen, anyway, in 18 years. Always loved shifting gears. Used to dream about it when I was a kid. Didn't have to be a stick shift either. Three on the tree, fine by me.
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