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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by Ntrails on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:27AM (#12975844)
When stopped you have two options in a car, sitting with your foot on the clutch (which is flat out bad) and putting the car in neutral.

Putting the car in neutral is basically one meaningful action - changing gear, yes you have to depress the clutch move the gearstick to neutral and then let the clutch go - but to describe that as "cycle the clutch twice" is madness. Am I missing something?

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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:51PM (#12982038)
You have to take it back out of neutral, making two cycles of the clutch.

No madness involved.

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