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Time for Beauty: Yo-Yo Ma, Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude

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KGxvi12/03/2020 3:08:37 pm PST

re: #178 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

In 2012 I intended to buy a pickup truck but no one had a pickup with a stick. So I bought a Chevy Cruz instead. It was one of only four Chevy vehicles at the time that offered a stick. The others were the Corvette, the Camaro, and the little four seater that look like a golf cart.

I’ve driven a Tesla a few times now, and I think that as much as I love the stick, which I really do, the inertial drag/automatic braking thing gives more precise control over acceleration and deceleration AND is fun. I’m pretty sure my next car will be electric.

both pick ups I’ve driven (89 toyota when I turned 16, and an ‘05 F150 I got after I graduated law school) were automatics. So was the 99 Mustang I got as a 21st birthday present to myself. The Challenger is the first manual I’ve owned and it took some getting used to. I do enjoy driving a manual, but have been intrigued by the electrics lately.

Then again, the goal as always been to have a classic car for side quests, so maybe that’s still the goal? I can get an electric in the next couple of years for my daily stuff and the car from Bullitt as my side quest mobile