Calif mom gave 15 yr old keys to Dodge Challenger to run to store. He fled cops at 100mph killing 1

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41. It used to be that a stick shift was all you could get here

They used to get better gas mileage than automatics, and with the price of gas here, that meant a lot to the Europeans. But now, the automatics get about the same as the stick shifts, so the stick shifts are slowly fading into history. I don't like or trust automatics much, either, but it's fast becoming the case that nothing else is available. I may be on my last stick shift car right now. I bought my first one back in 1979, in Framingham, Massachusetts. A LOT of water has been flowing under the bridge since then!