Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:22:56 -0500 From: "Wade R. Aiken" <iblisnopsam.penn.com> Subject: Re: E-mail List: Manual Transmission Advocate
Yep, the sticks are getting harder to find. I'm looking at leasing a new car this year and it absolutly must have a manual transmission. I have looked at the few American cars that I like such as the Chrysler 300M and the Pontiac Grand Prix but I had to cross them off my list because a manual transmission is not offered. I don't know how they can call them sports sedans with no available manual trans. Fortunately Saab makes a stick available to those of us who enjoy driving. As for the autosticks, what's the point? You don't get that feel of changing gears or the engine braking (which is a big plus on snow covered hills in the dead of winter) of a real stick, so they are, at least to me, a JOKE.