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According to this story in the Wall St. Journal from a few days ago, Saab is barely hanging on:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 00188.html

Would be sad to see them go.

Car and Driver is running a neat little series called "Name that Shifter." They show you a picture of a stick shift and you have to guess which car it's from. The latest one was a Carbodies FX4 Fairway, better known as a London taxi. Or in other words, completely impossible for those of us...

I quite like that barefoot idea by the way. I've never tried it but it makes sense. I'd probably wear socks, or maybe those Vibram "barefoot" shoe things. I can see how your foot could feel a slight vibration as the clutch engages that you wouldn't be able to feel wearing shoes or boots. T...

When I drove my first stick shift (a friend's old Fort Escort) and later when I got my own (a VW Jetta) I was terrible at it. Jerky starts, occasional stalls, rolling back on inclines etc. Hills weren't much of an issue since I lived in a pretty flat region, the tough inclines were the ramps getting...

My very first car was a VW Jetta manual that I drove around Toronto for years. I don't live in Toronto anymore and that was nearly a decade ago, so I'm feeling nostalgic for that car (I now have an automatic - gasp!). So I'm tempted by this 1987 Saab as a second car, just to drive around town for a ...