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After I moved back to Ohio I drove an old Ford Crown Victoria. ( It is a large car that drives like a boat )
My next car was a newer version of the model, and the Police Interceptor variant, previously owned by the Ohio State Highway Patrol, available only as an automatic. ( It performed better but wasn't outstanding. )
( More performance was available for not much more money. ) So, I traded my ex-police car in for what is basically a Japanese-made rally car, available only as stick-shift.
( It was great fun to drive. )
So, when I was driving on our Lancashire day-trip, among the wind and the rain and the traffic I had some challenging contingency planning to do. Everything went fine, but I had to remain well aware of my available options because they were relatively few. I think that what made my sports car such a pleasure to drive was that it was far less work to keep contingencies in mind: it effectively opened up many more paths through spacetime. If something bad happened in poor conditions and traffic I had a range of escape routes, in terms of speed and direction, within easy reach. In the Astra, not so much. While I wasn't pushing my Subaru anywhere near what it could do, that meant that I was more free to just enjoy driving instead of actively planning it.
My next car was a newer version of the model, and the Police Interceptor variant, previously owned by the Ohio State Highway Patrol, available only as an automatic. ( It performed better but wasn't outstanding. )
( More performance was available for not much more money. ) So, I traded my ex-police car in for what is basically a Japanese-made rally car, available only as stick-shift.
( It was great fun to drive. )
So, when I was driving on our Lancashire day-trip, among the wind and the rain and the traffic I had some challenging contingency planning to do. Everything went fine, but I had to remain well aware of my available options because they were relatively few. I think that what made my sports car such a pleasure to drive was that it was far less work to keep contingencies in mind: it effectively opened up many more paths through spacetime. If something bad happened in poor conditions and traffic I had a range of escape routes, in terms of speed and direction, within easy reach. In the Astra, not so much. While I wasn't pushing my Subaru anywhere near what it could do, that meant that I was more free to just enjoy driving instead of actively planning it.
