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I was with my 15-month old son, Otto, at the playground in Griffith Park the other day and saw something that reaffirmed my faith that maybe, just maybe, some of this current generation of kids will grow up appreciating cars the way I do. More »
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Although we know you didn't need another reason to continue seeking out the dwindling supply of cars with manual transmissions, we're giving you one anyways. A Florida man and woman still have their car because a pair of carjackers didn't know how to drive a stick. More »
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Four men carjacked a 22-year-old student athlete from Belhaven University with the intention of raping her Wednesday night. None of them could operate a manual transmission so they made her drive. She intentionally crashed her car, probably saving her life. More »
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The stick shift may be going the way of the dodo. In a paddle-shifting utopia, its last refuge will be the bathroom sink. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5416973&view=rss&microfeed=true My name is Ram. I am a huge closet case. [VanityFair] More »
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Tear the lapel of your best pink blazer and say Kaddish, bitches. Travis Parman - GM's East Coast Publicity Director and self-anointed C.G.O. (Chief Gay Officer) - has taken a buyout. The automotive journalism world will never be the same. More »
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To share with you the fruits of a collaboration between Jalopnik and Vanity Fair’s gay car blog Stick Shift, here’s a mega-gallery of a gorgeous red 1967 Miura P400. More »
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When Brett Berk from Vanity Fair's Stick Shift offers to pick us up in a 600 HP Bentley Continental GT Speed, Ray and I will pretty much do whatever he wants. Except that. [Stick Shift] More »
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Only 6% of new cars sold stateside have a manual transmission, but every one of the Fiesta Movement cars is a stick. We taught one winner, Jill Hanner, how to drive a manual transmission car. More »
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Best auto review line this week: "I hate to break it to you, TSX: It [front fascia] doesn't really make you look adult. More like a smiling Twink who's nose-deep in Anderson Cooper's bush." [StickShift] More »
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In a stringer piece for the Detroit News, Rex Roy makes the observation that automatic transmissions are finally beginning to catch up to stick shifts in fuel economy. While we say "it's about damn time," considering automatics make up more than 90% of the US new vehicle market, we simultaneously lament that same fact. Also, we think photog-cum-journo Roy misses out on an important component of the improvement: The interface between engine and transmission and the technologies that make the entire powertrain system more efficient. Join us after the jump for a look at why it's not just the two extra gears in your slushbox doing all the work. More »
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We're really starting to like Stick Shift, Vanity Fair's weekly gay car blog. It explains to us the intricacies and variations of the gay psyche in a language we can understand: cars. Take, for instance, that really nice middle-aged guy who runs the local antiques shop. He's always inviting you and your teenage friends over to get high and he lives alone in a big old house that he can't quite afford to keep up. Which is kind of like his car: An old Jaguar XJS convertible. It's got tears in the top, the motor that raises it blew out years ago and the interior smells like mold mixed with Calvin Klein Obsession. He thinks it makes him look like the kind of upper class English man that calls himself The Major, when in reality it makes him look like someone living a lifestyle they can't quite manage. Everyone knows a disaster is looming (in the car's case, it'll require a new engine; in The Major's, an out-of-state move) except for the eternally optimistic owner. [Stick Shift] More »
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What's wrong with society when carjackers can't even work a stick shift and third pedal. Do they want the world just handed to them? It's true. Two teenaged carjackers from Georgia fulfilled their charter, jacking a guy's car outside a pizzeria. But when one of them jumped behind the wheel and saw that strange, floppy stick and the alien footrest to the left of the brake, they were flummoxed. After several moments of adrenaline-fueled bafflement, the teens hit the bricks and were later captured. Something must be done about this trend of lawlessness. Bob Bondaurant, call the front desk. – Mike Spinelli More »
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Let's first off start by saying — and without the potential confusion of an acronym — this is Not Safe For Work (fine we'll use the acronym anyway...NSFW). So if you're going to click the link below, please make sure the kiddies and other impressionable people are appropriately shoo-ed away. Now that it's just us older folks...we knew something like this would come our way eventually, but we always hoped it would be someone else who would have to cover it. Although, that's not saying we mind this young lady covering this stick shift, we are saying we wish she'd lubed it up first. Because well, that just looks painful at first glance, second glance — and oh yes, yes and "Yes!", third glance. Need a smoke? More »
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