I am pretty sure this is one of the many reasons. I recently came to usa from eastern europe, where I had car with manual gearbox (and with ceramic clutch, turb

I am pretty sure this is one of the many reasons. I recently came to usa from eastern europe, where I had car with manual gearbox (and with ceramic clutch, turbo, etc rough stuff under hood keeping you busy in traffic =)). I quickly get used to do smooth driving and continue to do it here in usa too on my automatic trans car.