I have returned after a really long time. Sad thing is that I don't have any pictures of my car, but I have a youtube video of it. I made it yesterday and I want to share it. enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkTao7bQ7Pg

Nice! Looks good in white (that type of Acura looks good in any color) Also a very nice intro to explaining the car and how it's features work (ever thought about being a car salesman?) It might be right up your alley.

How lucky MBLS65fan you are , what a cool car, it seems quite luxurious, i envy you.

Thanks guys.

I have thought about being a car's salesman a few years back, but since a lot of automotive sales are not doing too great I had to rethink. I actually want to become a psychologist .

You didnt know how to drive a manual but you'd like to learn wasnt it?

I still don't know and I still want to learn.

Do you have any car to practise? its a bit stupid but have you seen those videos on youtube that teach you how to drive manuals?

I do not have a car to practice on, and I have seen a few on youtube, but I think that being at the wheel and having an instructor tell you is a better way to learn, in my opinion. My neighbor a few months ago offered to teach me (he has a lot of cars), but he hasn't driven a manual home for a while.

By the way, for everybody on imcdb. If you haven't read my profile yet, my real name is Joseph.

Perhaps we Europeans over here should offer Joseph a "Original-European-style-driving-lesson", authentic only in stick-shift-cars?

Atr first CCF learns him, how to pass Madrid, then go East to wickey -the absolute direct way across the Alps Mountains. For that trip, DynaMike or garco can lease an oversized camping-trailer in original Holland-style.
Then up North to Weasel1984 and fck (to show the road-situations along the Ukrainian and Belarus-border) than westwards with German speed on the German Autobahn (incl.teaching how to drink a cup of coffee at 200 km/h).

Then a ride on the narrow top of a real Dutch dike, try to pass three cute girls on bicycles (using the Dutch style: riding side by side, not behind the other). Followed by the Belgian style of using a car (quite different than the Belgian neighbours does), shown by Antoine.
After a few relaxing circles across Paris, which Joseph get learned by sixcyl, we let Joseph's trip with help of stronghold and GagHalfrunt roll out in the UK - on the left side.

what do you mean?

Perhaps Joseph has the chance to make his own experience with the prejudices, which are going around about Belgian drivers.
The way, how the people in Brussels are parking, is a bit different than in Rotterdam or Düsseldorf.
And in Belgium red traffic lights are obviosly seen more as a friendly recommondation than as a fixed rule.

I made these experiences (and other) by myself, confirmed by my uncle, who works since 15 years as an EU-bureaucrat in Brussels.

When was the law released to have a driver's license in Belgium? After the WW2, am I right?

Well you are a little exagerating about red lights
I do not see so often people really passing at red lights (well, except if you count the "very orange" as red then indeed...)

Don't forget, in the UK, the elderly guy in a trilby hat and smoking a pipe, driving a Vauxhall Corsa, Nissan Micra or Ford Fiesta in the middle of the road at 25 mph in built-up areas and 37 mph elsewhere (except on motorways, where he will frighten himself to death at 52 mph).
Since we're airing our prejudices, maybe we should also introduce Joseph to the former Jugoslavia, where overtaking eight vehicles at once is thought to be a sign of machismo.

it's amber

One thing though, I don't drink coffee.

It's "cherry-green"

Sometimes I ignore red lights, too. It depends on my mood and opinion. The (one and only) light in our village, I ignore mostly. It's a pure harrassment-light. At that (wide) place no pedestrians are on the street. It changes the colours every few seconds, and it's always red, when a car is coming. I pass it by red light, to, when noone is using it - and hopefully noone is in the police-station besides.

It doesn't matter. We can lift up the demand of the excercise: eat Chinese noodles or a German Bratwurst while driving - without making blots.

I don't, it is just that sometimes you think that you have time to pass at orange But if the light is red when I arrive, I never pass it (and I do not think that so many people pass in such case).
It happened that I passed red lights, but it was special cases: when lights had problem and never turned green (after waited two series of green lights in the other way of trafic)

That's exactly how my grandma drives when I'm riding with her! She goes down a 35 mph road no faster than 23 in her enormous red Crown Victoria with it's left turn signal still on from when she left the driveway, and everyone is passing us and some even give her the finger. I know it's an old person sterotype but it's true for her! I don't think old people should be allowed to have a lisence if they drive like that