I heard Click and Clack advise some yuppie puppie Porsche owner
to save his clutch and use those breaks. Me, I think if you
like to drive, as opposed to using your car as an appliance,
you're more apt to downshift ALOT and minimize break usage.
I frankly drive a stick because I like the feeling of banging
down a gear and taking a nice (fast) line at that freeway exit.
And over my (long) driving career, I haven't had trouble with:
excessive clutch wear (my last Jetta retired with 147,000 miles
and the original clutch), gas mileage (if you drive a four --
especially the kind with all the 'puters to limit gas consumption
-- you've "already given") nor brakes. I'm of the cars_are_
meant_to_be_driven school.
- Dale "I now measure my age in Celsius; that's 10.5!"
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