lol @ car nerds acting like they're just too enlightened to drive automatic
@mallaidh Hafta say, I'm reeeally not a car nerd* [supporting evidence: haven't owned a car in over a decade; last week I went to the supermarket (and, o'course, the pub..) by unicycle] but even I think automatics are just blinking daft!
@ej bah, that's what someone who thinks a unicycle is reasonable would say. manuals are generally alright until you have to hand them over to an american valet driver, all bets are off at that point.
@ej some nicer hotels do it for parking, not sure how common it is. there are at least a few horror stories online of manuals coming back with the clutch absolutely shredded beyond belief.
@mallaidh @ej a valet drove my cousin's audi (manual transmission) right into a wall. Whoops.