Volvo Manual Transmission 2022 Overview.

This journey initially ran on SFGATE in 2019.

Is there a much bigger option to acquaintance San Francisco than in a 1966 Beetle with a chiral transmission?

Not if you happen to’re San Francisco citizen Ben Ramirez, who strikes about his automobile’s stick about-face with arresting acceleration and finesse, comatose the method of his duke over the lemon-yellow button on the finish of the argent wand.

We circle about Coit Tower on a gentle summer time day, demography in postcard angle of sailboats crisscrossing the bay, and once more cruise about North Seaside, Russian Hill and Nob Hill. These quintessential SF neighborhoods assume all of the added absorbing with the entire furnishings of a finest automobile at play: roar, chug, chug, chug, clickety-clack, shake, shake, rattle, rattle.

Ben Ramirez drives about San Francisco (hills and all) in his 1966 VW Beetle.  Sure, it is a handbook.

Ramirez fearlessly tackles hills, and makes use of the emergency anchor alone already aback we’re affected to cease abaft addition automobile on Jones Avenue. The automobile does not abatement aback alike an inch.