Weekly Top 3: Manual Shifters Everyone Would Drive

November 20th, 2009 admin

Look, I'll be the first to admit it: sometimes automatics are just better. Take my friend's late-'60s Saab in high school, for instance, which had a cranky three-speed manual shifter mounted on the steering column. Any automatic


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