![]() 07/31/2015 at 11:05 • Filed to: vw, bug | ![]() | ![]() |
This is a photo of me, nearly four years ago, driving my wife’s 05 VW New Beetle Convertible on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I would drive it again if it wasn’t a piece of garbage.
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you can leave it in drive and then push it off a cliff if you wanr
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This one was a 5-speed stick. It felt like the gearbox was full of racquetballs.
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Really? Haha, I don’t think I’ve ever see a Beetle convertible with manual transmission.
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Here's one of 9 in the Charlotte area according to cars.com
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Are VW manuals really that vague? I’ve heard Matt Farah talk about rather having the DSG, because it’s just a better feeling transmission.
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This one had a 2.0 ABA 5-speed and the gearbox was really that vague. Shift throws were longish but there was easily an inch and a half of play while the car was in gear. She said it was always like that.
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I, too do things that don’t suck more than once. Speaking carefully.
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Have VW manual, can confirm.
I like to think of my gear stick as a G-force meter, considering how much it moves around following the car’s acceleration.
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I love that your wife actually had flowers in the little vase. :)
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I like your Transplants tattoo.