MostlyYank

ROTFLMAO!!

Pete

Pulaski

You know where you can stick those!

Nutek

Guindalf

My two cents...

I wouldn't buy anything with the Chrysler name on it (Charger/Challenger) because they are so notably unreliable.

As for Chevy, are you a chav or a chav wannabe?

At least with a Fraud you know there's a dealer down the road from wherever you are and, unless you buy Shelby/Mach 1/Boss302, etc., servicing and parts won't break you!

S Folinsky

Edmunds.com agrees that the primary advantage of stick is that they are fun to drive.

Nutek

That and you get to say "stick" to Pulaski.

sir_eccles

But more and more automatics are now coming with flappy paddles so you can pretend you have manual. My Outback has a CVT box but you can set it to manual and get 6 virtual gears.

Bob

Those things are horrid though.

Lucybell33

There are chav wannabes???

Think we'll probably go with the 'Stang via IA. Hubby would really like one - well, either that or a motorbike, and I've vetoed the latter!!

Lucybell33

I had the tiptronic gearbox on my Boxster, and loved it. Meant an easy auto drive in traffic, but with the flexibility to switch over to manual whenever I wanted. I am a girl though.

Nutek

I rode motorcycles for twenty years in the UK. No way I would want to ride one here.

The Mustang will be fun.

Pulaski

I got mine from IA too. .... A GT, of course.
Mrs P picked ours up from the dealer, and the sales officer assigned to check the paperwork and hand over the keys asked Mrs P three times if she knew how to drive a stick. Perhaps this was because this was in the Westchester suburbs of NYC, where there are few domestic cars and fewer sticks, ..... but Mrs P got quite a laugh out of it because the sales officer was a woman!

FWIW Mrs P owned and drove an Accord stick-shift herself up to the point she got married and moved to the UK.

Hiro11

Anyone considering buying a Mustang should hold off. The '15 is going to be miles better than the '14:
- independent rear suspension. For God's sake, finally.
- smaller car, better looks. Much less slavishly retro.
- available turbo 4 cyl with 300+ HP. Light and fast. You can still get the 420 hp Coyote V8, of course.
- an interior that does not appear at first glance to have been made from melted-down milk cartons, unlike the current car.

Lucybell33

Haha - great, will pass that on to hubby. He's never even ridden a motorbike here! Think he just like the idea of getting through the Silicon Valley traffic. I'd rather he stayed alive!!

Lucybell33

Haha - great story!

We will try both the V6 and the GT. Hubby's last car was a suped-up Subaru Imprezza, which roared, so he'd probably like the GT. Personally, I think 300bhp sounds more than sufficient!!