Manual car hire from LAX
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Worldy and travelled folks, do any of you know of a company that can hire me a manual transmission European style car from LAX? [Los Angeles international airport] '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
For the manual part, one of the few manual transmission cars made in America is the Chevrolet Corvette. (I note that they have an option for automatic transmission, so you may be out of luck here also.) Many years ago, one of my colleagues (His name was Jones too, ... hmm) had to settle for a Corvette (free upgrade) when some problem popped up with his car reservation on a business trip to a conference. He had to drive it from Sunnyvale to Monterrey, CA too. Then when he got to his hotel, another problem. They set him up instead in a nicer hotel with a balcony over the ocean. (I guess the seals were a bit loud in the evenings, however.) This story proves that you can drive a manual rental car in the US if you are very very lucky. ;) - Matt Jessick
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Worldy and travelled folks, do any of you know of a company that can hire me a manual transmission European style car from LAX? [Los Angeles international airport] '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
Definitely call ahead to ask - and get a reservation for it if they say they have it. I have a feeling that manual transmissions are few and far between in American rent-a-car companies. America has quite a love obsession with the automatic transmission for some reason. So much so that I'm willing to bet car rental companies are worried that rentals with manual transmissions will be mostly unwanted. Plus, if you owned a car, would you want someone who wasn't good with a manual transmission driving it? ;) I bet they'd have to replace the transmissions and clutches in their rentals at least once a year. -- Russell Morris "So, broccoli, mother says you're good for me... but I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" - Stewy
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that way you can have a hottie on both sides :-D Steve
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Yeah, I met this one guy in the US, and when he went to drive me home, I tried to get in on the drivers side !! I got better though, by the end, I probably drove on the right side of the road at least 60% of the time. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
This last winter (I'll clear things up -- last December) I was in Australia and I drove for about ten days. I was just so confusing at the end to always be thinking "turn left and keep left" or "watch out on the *other* side"... but after a few days I kind of got used to it. One thing that always got me was confusing the turn signal lever with the windshield wipers. It just happens that the turn signal is on the door side (read: left side) so when I wanted to turn, I always had to think or else I would turn the wipers on! I never got used to that....... ..... until I came back home. It took me about two weeks to stop looking for the turn signal lever on the right side of my wheel :doh: It was a nice experience driving on the wrong side of the road! :-D -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
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We call it the hand brake, for even more obvious reasons :D cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Actually in Spanish (in Mexico at least) it's called hand brake (freno de mano). Now that I think of it, some (especially older - around 5 to 10 years) American automatic-transmission cars have it as a pedal and European as a...... uhm... hand break. I (well, my parents) have a 2000 Ford Explorer with a pedal, but my 2001 Lincoln LS (for those of you in Europe who may not know, Lincoln is the luxury division of Ford, like Cadillac is to General Motors) has a hand brake. All manual cars I have seen have the normal hand brake. -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
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Christian Graus wrote:
I liked the bench seats though
I am surprised that there are cars still sold in the US with bench seats. I had to special-order a bench seat and wait three months for delivery!
Christian Graus wrote:
much better for drive ins and hillside parking than bucket seats
I am telling youi, romance is dead! ;P
Vivic wrote:
I had to special-order a bench seat and wait three months for delivery!
Bench seats are standard equipment in a Ford pickup truck, in the LX version.
Vivic wrote:
I am telling youi, romance is dead!
Not when you drive a pickup, there is always a bed available. :laugh: :-O
DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.
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Good luck. They didn't even give me that option. And then the hand brake was a pedal on the floor, the lights were just plain wierd, plus the steering wheel was on the wrong side !!! Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
I drove in Germany for a couple of weeks and had no trouble - apart from the only thing I could afford was a Smart car. Smart cars are good though, you get out and then pick it up and put it in your handbag :laugh: The tigress is here :-D
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I drove in Germany for a couple of weeks and had no trouble - apart from the only thing I could afford was a Smart car. Smart cars are good though, you get out and then pick it up and put it in your handbag :laugh: The tigress is here :-D
I rented a Smart in France earlier this year and loved it! Of course, my own car is a Kia, and not just any Kia, it's the smallest one they make :-) If they made one smaller I'd probably buy it! Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]
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that way you can have a hottie on both sides :-D Steve
:-D RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Christian Graus wrote:
And then the hand brake was a pedal on the floor
Isn't that where the brake is supposed to be? :~
Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson
My first car (a series 2 landrover) had the headlight main beam/dip switch as a button on the floor under the clutch pedal...:doh: '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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Worldy and travelled folks, do any of you know of a company that can hire me a manual transmission European style car from LAX? [Los Angeles international airport] '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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This last winter (I'll clear things up -- last December) I was in Australia and I drove for about ten days. I was just so confusing at the end to always be thinking "turn left and keep left" or "watch out on the *other* side"... but after a few days I kind of got used to it. One thing that always got me was confusing the turn signal lever with the windshield wipers. It just happens that the turn signal is on the door side (read: left side) so when I wanted to turn, I always had to think or else I would turn the wipers on! I never got used to that....... ..... until I came back home. It took me about two weeks to stop looking for the turn signal lever on the right side of my wheel :doh: It was a nice experience driving on the wrong side of the road! :-D -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
It just happens that the turn signal is on the door side (read: left side) so when I wanted to turn, I always had to think or else I would turn the wipers on! I
Yeah, that took me a day to get used to, as well :-) Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++