I was more scared asking her dad for permission than I was actually doing the proposal (it was obvious she'd say yes, given that she had been dropping hints all over the place).
I always find it intriguing that stick shift seems to be so rare in the US. Here in the UK you'd be hard pressed to find a driver who can't drive stick shift.
If you take your UK test having only learned to drive an automatic then you can't legally drive a stick shift car (which your licence will point out), which obviously limits the cars you can buy. If you do the test with a stick shift then you can drive both types, so I've always thought that anyone just learning automatic isn't really doing the full test.
The video isn't as good as the one they put out last year, and it's also a lot shorter. You could say it's edited down for TV, but they put out a full version and a TV edit last year so I'm not convinced. The UK one has a few different things to the US version though.
You can't pull the body out of its perfectly preserved sterile environment either. It would rapidly decay if you did that.
If you take your UK test having only learned to drive an automatic then you can't legally drive a stick shift car (which your licence will point out), which obviously limits the cars you can buy. If you do the test with a stick shift then you can drive both types, so I've always thought that anyone just learning automatic isn't really doing the full test.