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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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In Europe you can even get rental cars with a stick shift. Never see one in America.
Difference is that in Europe you are not given a drivers license in a box of post toasties, you have to study for it and pass a rigid exam. Cost is about $1500 in Germany, same in other countries. Then you have to have emergency medical training and so on before your license is granted.
Motorcycle riders are limited to a 27 hp bike for the first year or two as a safety measure.
Big difference in the way they handle driving... In Germany if you run out of gas on the autobahn you get a ticket. After all, doing something like this is not responsible and a license is not a given, its something you have to earn then keep working at to keep. Wish it was this way in the states.
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2021 Subaru Legacy, 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins (the workhorse), 1992 Jaguar XJ S-3 V-12 VDP (one of only 100 examples made), 1969 Jaguar XJ (been in the family since new), 1985 911 Targa backdated to 1973 RS specs with a 3.6 shoehorned in the back, 1959 Austin Healey Sprite (former SCCA H-Prod), 1995 BMW R1100RSL, 1971 & '72 BMW R75/5 "Toaster," Ural Tourist w/sidecar, 1949 Aeronca Sedan / QB
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