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Originally Posted by Phillies8008
No one's saying that everyone can't do these things at an older age, but the fact of the matter is that your chances of not being able to are increasingly higher the older you get. There are people that have no mobility problems at 80, and people who do have them at 55. Just depends on genetics and luck.
I don't think it's an unreasonable consideration since there's no guarantee that you won't fall prey to those increasing odds and lose the opportunity.
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Nearly everyone has mobility issues as they age; I very much do, but driving sports cars (the Bronco qualifies) and riding motorcycles is more important than any minor aches and pains I get from using such vehicles. Plus they have Aleve with the arthritis cap!
The post made it sound like once a person hits his 50's he's ready for the retirement home (automotively speaking). I was just countering that point of view.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."