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Old Feb 18, 2017, 8:46 am
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Badenoch
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Originally Posted by kipper
I learned to drive on a manual transmission, and when I do drive an automatic (rental cars, driving friends' cars), I'm afraid I'm going to punch a hole through their floorboard where the clutch should be.
Worse is attempting to depress the non-existent clutch coming to a stoplight only to hit the left side of the much wider brake pedal commonly found on automatics. Oooops...
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