Re: Unreadable Manuals
| April 20, 2020 05:51PM |
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trainrider47 Wrote:
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> Every car I've rented in the UK and Germany has
> been a stick shift. I was surprised when the car
> I rented in New Zealand was an automatic. One
> less thing to have to think about when driving on
> the other side of the road, so I didn't complain!
>
> Michael Allen
That's funny Michael,
the exact opposite experience when I went to the US for the first time back in '82, asked for a Manual for familiarity purposes as being on the wrong side of the road there. The funny looks we got in both Colorado and California, both in referring to it as a Manual, and wanting one over an Auto was beyond their comprehension I guess.
Oddly I didn't get that renting on the last leg of the trip in Vancouver, I put that down to being more in common with the Canadians.
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> Every car I've rented in the UK and Germany has
> been a stick shift. I was surprised when the car
> I rented in New Zealand was an automatic. One
> less thing to have to think about when driving on
> the other side of the road, so I didn't complain!
>
> Michael Allen
That's funny Michael,
the exact opposite experience when I went to the US for the first time back in '82, asked for a Manual for familiarity purposes as being on the wrong side of the road there. The funny looks we got in both Colorado and California, both in referring to it as a Manual, and wanting one over an Auto was beyond their comprehension I guess.
Oddly I didn't get that renting on the last leg of the trip in Vancouver, I put that down to being more in common with the Canadians.
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