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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OSFlanker" data-source="post: 73929" data-attributes="member: 12">The German traffic is not that much better than KL at peak hours.  Think Autobahn and you won't think traffic jams but the reality is the Autobahn around major cities like Frankfurt, Cologne, Bonn are just a mass of cars at peak hours, just like our Federal Highway though their road manners are definitely better.  In fact, the Cologne-Bonn-Dusseldorf stretch is one of the worse traffic jams in Germany as there are many major cities and town within 100km of each other.Other part of Europe?  Same - London, Rome, Paris.  Yet they still have more manual cars than auto.  It's just our culture.  Read the Autocar Asean and you will see them crying with joy that the latest Vauxhall Astra is finally available in auto.  Maybe journalists never own a car long enough to see how costly it is to repair a slush box.</blockquote>