well are you in the market for a new car
uh well yeah i am as a matter of fact well actually actually i'm looking for another car but uh uh new probably not
oh what sort of requirements to you have for your car
uh sports car uh usually either black or red
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um
and and electric windows and power locks no
i see
top of top of the line
well uh not so much that as it is i've had so many times when uh uh you know i i'll have a friend next to me or i see somebody
uh guy broken down on the side of the road and try to lean over and roll down the window
oh
it is just a real pain or you know if i'm driving along and there's somebody next to me and uh somebody that i know and you try to talk to them it's real difficult to drive reach reach over and try to roll down the window
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and uh so power locks and power windows are just just things that uh uh just really help a lot what about you
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well i guess i'm um more traditional in that i don't like power power windows or power locks because the people that i know have who have them always seem to have trouble with them
oh
and um so i don't i just don't like anything that i can't figure out why it doesn't work and then i want you know good uh gas mileage and i want an air bag and
sure
uh i guess a good
have you ever had a car with an air bag
no i haven't have you
no
somehow i just think you know i like the idea
well it it seems sure seems to save lives and uh yeah i actually i like the antilock brakes
right
right that's a good idea
and i've never had a chance to i have been in cars that have had them but i've never tromped on the brakes to see uh you know on ice or water just to see if they didn't lock up
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but uh you think you'd buy uh an American car or a European or Japanese
well i actually i don't know a lot about different brands i tend to have you know my requirements like the last time i bought a car i i guess i did sort of prefer American and my requirements were basically you know good repair record
good mileage um
and i needed air-conditioning and um
can't remember what my oh i wanted uh stickshift
and so i didn't have a whole lot of choice there was one car in all of the the metropolitan area that i could find that
you know was sort of a medium priced car with a stickshift in it it it turned out to be a a Chrysler um
what was that
Lancer
huh stick shift huh did it have what a three speed or a four speed
yeah
no a five speed and it basically it was something that a military guy had ordered and hadn't picked up and so it had been on the lot three months and they were really eager to sell it
wow
so i guess in this area at least you know if it's not automatic it doesn't move
well actually i much prefer a stick shift
and what i'm i'm curious i i know why i love a stick shift why do you why did you want one
well i just wanted it because again i had i guess traditionally always had a car that had one and i thought it would be more reliable
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it's hard to find stick shift cars anymore
i found that out i mean you know the people would just sort of look at me like you must be crazy when you went in to and they asked and said that was the requirement
so
huh
yeah no i mean most of the sports cars are stick shift
yeah
well i'm not even sure all of them are anymore at least in this area not that i was looking for sports cars but now the people i've talked to don't seem to have stick shift
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and so why do you like stick shift
um i guess i i grew up on it and it's fun it's it's an enjoyable part of driving i do feel like i have uh more control
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over the car and it it to me it gives me more a lot more control in the snow and ice and slick conditions
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uh it it it does uh i don't know it it's really more fun than anything else as long as you're not stuck in heavy traffic it's fun
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right and actually it's probably safer on you know uh long trips because it keeps you more active
yeah yeah
so
yeah uh of course i like gadgets and and uh fun things on on the cars which are all the things course the could
