> On February 21, 2020 at 5:01 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > He said they were wonderful for teaching people to drive a standard > > transmission because the diesel had enough torque at low rpm that it was > > very difficult to stall it. > > Arguably the exact opposite of what you want.
Mom let me stall her 1977 Nova 10-20 times starting out on a hill when I was 15. I didn't want to drag the clutch, I wanted to get it right. When I finally got it right once I was set for life. I think I impressed the SoS (DMV) tester that I took my road test with a 3 on the tree. (which was a lot easier than the F100 with a cap on the back would have been, but harder than my brother's Mazda GLC that I'd done most of my driving in). Mitch. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
