Sure, that’s another way to get going. But doing so on a steep incline with barely enough traction available to climb in the first place can be quite tricky. Using the starter is much easier and much more consistent than revving and clutch slipping and modulating the parking brake. Best of all, your truck already had…

Will it? In my experience dealing with fleet owners, that’s not part of the criteria they use when making purchase decisions.

Fast is good. I like fast. And videos of fast things are neat.
But from a technical perspective, this just isn’t all that meaningful. Bobtail trucks are always fast, because they have gobs of power. They’re usually slowed down dramatically by all the shifting they have to do thanks to the short rev range. With that…

In-tank fuel pumps are the only fuel pumps I’ve used this trick on. You just smack the access panel or the tank near it.

Worth a shot!

Actually, my old one has that handbrake style too. I’ve just never used it, as Northern Illinois winters combined with Toyota’s love for rust removed that feature before I bought the truck.

I don’t really know why it would be a problem for the starter. First gear in low range, which you’d surely be in anyway if you were in a situation to need the feature, is pretty stinking low. The starter has a LOT of torque multiplication working in its favor with that low gearing.
I’ve used it a few times, and it’s…

“6) Car got a starter problem? Hit the starter with a hammer, tire iron, or a rock.”

With VCDS you can go in and change that threshold temperature on VWs. I moved mine to 34.

I don’t know if this qualifies as a secret, but it’s certainly a unique feature.
Old Toyota pickups have a “CLUTCH START CANCEL” button on the left side of the dash. It bypasses the clutch safety switch in the starter circuit. It’s really helpful if you’re forced to come to a stop on a big, steep uphill. Letting go of…

Chicago also has that dumb names+numbers system for the interstates. But they haven’t had the sense to just consolidate to one or the other like CA apparently did. Traffic reports say names only, no numbers. Most of the signs on the interstates say numbers only, no names. Entrances to the interstates from surface…

I’d buy it too. 90% sure on that.
(Hedging 10% in case it turns out to be terrible to drive.)

Are they?
I mean, sure, there are plenty of examples of cars that get better fuel economy numbers with the automatic option. But in the cases I’ve examined, that has nothing to do with the manual option being less efficient by its nature and everything to do with the manual option being given gear ratios that are less…

I too went to Catholic school. 13 years of that indoctrination, plus longer at home, and I STILL haven’t figured out the fish on Fridays thing.
Okay, so it’s no meat on Fridays. Except for fish meat; that’s fine. To the church, muscle tissue from an animal that lives in the water is meaningfully different from muscle…

Thieves “in the know” are not common.

This may be a bad environment to try to ask a serious question, but why not try?
Can you really be part of the Republican party if you don’t agree with the ideals of the leader that party chose for itself? How do you know that “Republican” means what you want it to mean rather than what it tells the world it means?
I…

I am in North America, so not a single one of those was offered with a manual transmission. The Golf was. That was a very big deal for us.
But if you head over to a VW dealership right now, they won’t let you get a manual with the top trim level wagon anymore. I guess I’m glad we bought when we did, but damn that…

Yeah, sure. Why not cross shop those?

“They don’t care so much about how the car drives, but they want the utility and appreciate a very nice interior.”

“Indianan”?