Mind, when I was given a new Golf to beetle around in while the insurers worked out what to do with the remains of a Saab 9000, I had to stop and read the manual because electric handbrakes are massively counterintuitive for people who grew up with rusty Minis.
Yon VW would also manage that modern thing of shutting itself off at the lights if you put it in neutral. So one would pull up, the automagic electric handbrake would come on as you pulled to a halt and then you'd sit there like good little children with your hands in your lap, waiting for the green light.
It was massively wrong and confusing, since the early 80s driving tutors were careful to point out that you waited at lights and junctions with the handbrake on, clutch down and vehicle in cog so you would not roll backwards in case of crap clutch control or cannon forwards in case of crap driver approaching carelessly from behind. (Ooer, etc.)
Mind, I've never had to double-declutch (much. SIIa LR boxes are non-sync on the first two gears) or heel-and-toe (much. Bloody Renault 'handbrakes') or attempt left-foot braking.
(This post is middle-aged-person clickbait isn't it.)
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Date: 2015-01-28 10:55 pm (UTC)Mind, when I was given a new Golf to beetle around in while the insurers worked out what to do with the remains of a Saab 9000, I had to stop and read the manual because electric handbrakes are massively counterintuitive for people who grew up with rusty Minis.
Yon VW would also manage that modern thing of shutting itself off at the lights if you put it in neutral. So one would pull up, the automagic electric handbrake would come on as you pulled to a halt and then you'd sit there like good little children with your hands in your lap, waiting for the green light.
It was massively wrong and confusing, since the early 80s driving tutors were careful to point out that you waited at lights and junctions with the handbrake on, clutch down and vehicle in cog so you would not roll backwards in case of crap clutch control or cannon forwards in case of crap driver approaching carelessly from behind. (Ooer, etc.)
Mind, I've never had to double-declutch (much. SIIa LR boxes are non-sync on the first two gears) or heel-and-toe (much. Bloody Renault 'handbrakes') or attempt left-foot braking.
(This post is middle-aged-person clickbait isn't it.)