"Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote:
>
> Jeroen wrote:
>
> > Although given the context, Dan probably meant a car... :-)
>
> Yes. After the beetle was discontinued in the US, Volkswagen sold a boxy
> little car called the Rabbit. Good cars - I used to take mine mudding back
> in high school.
I learned to drive stick on one. (It belonged to my calculus teacher,
who did a *much* better job of teaching me to drive stick than my father
had been able to in his various attempts at it.) The nice thing about
that car, which was a diesel, was that it was extremely forgiving. On
the first outing, I was going 10mph (about 16kph) in 4th gear, and it
didn't stall out on me. My father's Toyota would have died. Plus, my
father's car didn't have as great a turning radius as that Rabbit. (The
Rabbit wasn't quite as good on the steering as my MOM's car, which was
what I took my driving test on, but I wasn't allowed to touch it until I
was almost ready for the driving test. I executed my most perfect
parallel park in my mom's car.)
I have good feelings about VW Rabbits. I'm not sure I'd want to drive
one in Austin traffic, though. (I'm driving a car that could possibly
total an SUV and kill everyone inside, if I hit the SUV with it just
wrong, the way a state trooper did a few years back.)
Julia
