By Leftlane Staff
Thursday, Feb 16th, 2006 @ 2:34 pm

Automotive columnist Christie Blatchford of the Globe and Mail has written an interesting editorial on her experiences with manual transmissions. She shares her first experience with a manual. “Naturally, the light changed just as I approached the very top, and for a few long hideous minutes, almost dizzy with fear that I would roll into the car behind me, I bit back the panic and, with a great whirl of flashing feet, managed to keep the car from either stalling or moving backwards,” writes Blatchford. “And that was pretty much that: I was hooked on a stick.” Now, she wonders how people drive without it. “I mean, what is it that you non-stick people do anyway? How do you stay awake?” According to Blatchford, “there is nothing as satisfying as sliding into fourth or fifth gear at precisely the right instant such that the movement is seamless and the engine screamless.”

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