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View Poll Results: Do you own a Auto Or Manual, Live in City Or Country. Multiple choice.
I own an Auto, live in the country 22 26.19%
I own a Manual, live in the country 15 17.86%
I own an Auto, live in the city 24 28.57%
I own a Manual, live in the city 32 38.10%
I live in the central west region (ie. Bathurst, Orange, Blayney, Millthorpe etc) 6 7.14%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 84. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-09-2006, 01:33 PM   #1
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Default West VS City

Country Vs City, Running a poll on where you live & whether it's a manual or auto.

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Old 05-09-2006, 01:42 PM   #2
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auto in the city
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Old 05-09-2006, 01:50 PM   #3
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Hey - you know there's now places in Australia that arent in NSW or considered a part of Sydney??

Lol!

West? Of what? Sydney?
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Old 05-09-2006, 01:50 PM   #4
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Manual, live in the city.
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Old 05-09-2006, 01:52 PM   #5
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Manual and live in the city (crawling through 3 hours of stop start in a manual really beefs up your legs. :S
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Old 05-09-2006, 02:05 PM   #6
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City, drive a manual. Never too much peak hour traffic for a manual!
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Old 05-09-2006, 02:05 PM   #7
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2 manuals and live in the city.
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Old 05-09-2006, 02:08 PM   #8
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Lol, forgot to answer!

Manual, live in the city. Falcon is auto, but off the road at the moment.
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Lol, forgot to answer!

Manual, live in the city. Falcon is auto, but off the road at the moment.

too busy being a smarta*^ lol
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Old 05-09-2006, 03:05 PM   #10
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Hahah. Fair call. Just never heard of places like blaney
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Old 05-09-2006, 02:47 PM   #11
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Have an Auto .... and live in the Central West ;)
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Old 05-09-2006, 03:20 PM   #12
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wollongong city ? or country??? i say country and both auto
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Old 07-09-2006, 09:43 AM   #13
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wollongong city ? or country??? i say country and both auto
Wollongong is a city.
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Old 05-09-2006, 04:48 PM   #14
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Waaaaaaaaaay west of sydney.

States of Australia: NSW, other. lol Should have just had the poll as City Vs Country. Would have been a bit better.

But yeah, im way west of Sydney. I live just outside perth so Country and manual. Autos are no fun!
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Old 05-09-2006, 08:32 PM   #16
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Old 05-09-2006, 08:37 PM   #17
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City, Auto.
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Old 05-09-2006, 09:53 PM   #18
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Old 05-09-2006, 10:58 PM   #19
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Old 06-09-2006, 01:21 PM   #20
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How intersting... more country drivers have autos over manuals and more city drivers have manuals over autos.
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Old 06-09-2006, 03:54 PM   #21
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If you live West of the city in WA... you have bigger problems than if your car is auto or manual.

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Old 06-09-2006, 04:22 PM   #22
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Old 06-09-2006, 10:09 PM   #23
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I live in Gisborne and drive to Melbourne every day. Mostly freeway. I do 40k a year. Fact is, I also tow. Tandem with a small tractor on the back of my BA XR6 ute. About 2200kg. With my AUII XR6 ute i once had over two tonne on a tandem and 500kg plus on the tray. Not recomended with a manual according to Ford.

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PS, The BA is supposed to be better but I miss my AUII, I loved that car more.
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Old 07-09-2006, 03:43 PM   #24
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I'm gonna cop it - but hey, what happened to the good ol push bike for you city dwellers??

Auto - Country boy.
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Old 07-09-2006, 03:54 PM   #25
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This sort of post is out dated gone are the days (except for a few)where to depress the clutch on a big 351 required muscle ,new cars are light as and if anyone thinks useing a clutch on a modern day car is hard is a sook or lazy
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Old 19-09-2006, 08:55 PM   #26
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Where the i drive both? I have one of each.
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