I'm kinda glad that if you've made your license on an automatic here, you're not allowed to drive a stick.
Just can't drive it
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When I first looked it up, I actually had to read it a couple times because I was like "fishtailing on slippery surfaces? Yeah, and the issue is...?"
Lol they call it ghost walking, I call it witch hunting. Bad drivers looking for something to blame their poor driving skills on. That's seriously funny, first I'd ever heard of it . My parents nor I have yet to experience any "ghost walking" with my 2015 and it's got 110k miles on it. Its been aligned once by the Subaru dealer and it was barely out. I have the paper somewhere that shows how far it was out and what they set it to, can't remember what it was but I remember thinking it was barely out and didn't really need it. It's about halfway through it's third set of tires and it's only ever had all seasons on it, and I rarely rotate them. Again no issues, now in it's 5th winter.
If they did that here hardly anyone here would be allowed to drive stick. Probably 10% or less of cars in the US have manuals, a lot of people just don't have access to one to learn. I had to borrow a VW Golf from my aunt's fiance's client's father to learn to drive one. At the time that was the only person I knew who had one and would let me drive it. Now I have my truck which is a 5 speed that I drive daily in the summer.
I taught myself how to drive a stick by first carefully watching other people do it and then by finding running cars at the local u pull it and just driving them around all day, this was way back before they started draining all the fluids and putting them up in the air. Now out of the 8 vehicles I currently own 5 of them are a stick shift.
Up until about 10 years ago autos were mostly found in upper class or elderly persons vehicles in Europe, everyone else drove stick. Nowadays autos getting way more common with all the 7-10 speed DSG trannies found in compacts and sports cars.
Remember, traffic here is way more dynamic than in the US.
Remember, traffic here is way more dynamic than in the US.
Subaru is the official car of left leaning "forward thinkers" and lesbians. Aside from the political statement that you're trying to make by driving one, they just aren't really good cars. I've replaced 4 engines out of legacy wagons, all with horrendous rod knock, none with over 115k miles. The ones that hadn't been trying to window the block had leaking head gaskets. Just not great like people try to make them out to be.
My sister-in-law could not figure out how to drive a standard, her husband was trying to teach her but he's an idiot with no patience. I sat her down at a table and explained to her with diagrams how the pressure plate and clutch disk works so she can understand how to work the pedal. It took her about 10 miutes after that to figure it out and in a few days she could stop and start going up a hill.
Funny how markets differ. In Germany 99% of Subarus are owned by hunters, farmers and the such.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.....
I'm 100% Lesbo.
