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Old 07-20-2005, 02:20 AM
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I was thinking (yeah my head STILL hurts) the other night about japanese/euro domestic market cars....everything is on the right....you shift with yer left hand, which I imagine is pretty ackward (unless you've always done it that way...now my question is..is the clutch still on the right (towards the middle in this case, or is it reversed also? I don't think I could drive from the right, I'd be flipping out, trying to see the left of the car, the side I'm comfortable with I've never driven one of these cars (OBVIOUSLY) just wondered what the ergonomics are compared to our cars...



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exact same just on diffrent side you get use to it so much so it seems wierd to shift on right sied when tyou have to go back
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its the other side of the world so to them its normal because everything is reversed due to the earth's position to URANUS
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the pedal cluster is still the same.
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there are no dumb *** questions..





































just dumb asses that ask them.
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Old 07-20-2005, 11:35 AM
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DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNAR!!!





Well one less thing to think about then, thanx ppl



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Since I am one of the few people on the board that drives a right hand drive car, let me point out a few things. You must obtain a mail man licence to drive this right hand drive car in the states. Go to the post office and fill out a form. With a right hand drive car it actually steers different too. If you turn the wheel to the right, the car will turn left and vice versa. So the DMV requires you pass another test to make sure you are proficiant at the reversal of controls, and after the test you are issued a new drivers licence. Being amidextrious (spell check) helps. Now the next most important thing that many get wrong is the pedals are in fact different. We'll skip paddle shifters for now. So when you hit the pedal on the far right, normally the gas pedal, the horn will honk. The ebrake is now the throttle. The center pedal, or break, is actually the clutch, and the far left is now the brake. They will teach you in mail man school to cross your legs and you'll never know the difference.
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I thought this was going to be dumb questions about asses..........
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[quote name='94touring' date='Jul 20 2005, 11:39 AM']Since I am one of the few people on the board that drives a right hand drive car, let me point out a few things. You must obtain a mail man licence to drive this right hand drive car in the states. Go to the post office and fill out a form. With a right hand drive car it actually steers different too. If you turn the wheel to the right, the car will turn left and vice versa. So the DMV requires you pass another test to make sure you are proficiant at the reversal of controls, and after the test you are issued a new drivers licence. Being amidextrious (spell check) helps. Now the next most important thing that many get wrong is the pedals are in fact different. We'll skip paddle shifters for now. So when you hit the pedal on the far right, normally the gas pedal, the horn will honk. The ebrake is now the throttle. The center pedal, or break, is actually the clutch, and the far left is now the brake. They will teach you in mail man school to cross your legs and you'll never know the difference.

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Old 07-20-2005, 03:35 PM
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[quote name='94touring' date='Jul 20 2005, 06:39 PM']Since I am one of the few people on the board that drives a right hand drive car, let me point out a few things. You must obtain a mail man licence to drive this right hand drive car in the states. Go to the post office and fill out a form. With a right hand drive car it actually steers different too. If you turn the wheel to the right, the car will turn left and vice versa. So the DMV requires you pass another test to make sure you are proficiant at the reversal of controls, and after the test you are issued a new drivers licence. Being amidextrious (spell check) helps. Now the next most important thing that many get wrong is the pedals are in fact different. We'll skip paddle shifters for now. So when you hit the pedal on the far right, normally the gas pedal, the horn will honk. The ebrake is now the throttle. The center pedal, or break, is actually the clutch, and the far left is now the brake. They will teach you in mail man school to cross your legs and you'll never know the difference.

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Yeah, we have some similar tests for left-hand drive cars. When we were in America I couldn't get used to having the accelerator on the floor. And good point about the ambidextrocity, I take it most people who drive LHD cars are right-handed because most people here are Lefties.



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