Here is an excerpt from an Autoweek web article on the updated 2006 Lotus Elise:

"The shifter has been strengthened—vehicle development manager Nick Adams says America saw a spike in warranty claims to over 4 percent "

So either American men are much stronger than those sissies on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean or Americans are a bunch of ham fisted oafs that don't know how to shift gears. Being American I vote for Euro sissies. :mdrmed:

And I being European, vote for the other option :D:

Now we have to indian leg wrestle.

I'm guessing it's because Americans are fatter and when they're pushing the shifter they have a lot more weight to throw behind the push.

I'm guessing it's because Americans are fatter and when they're pushing the shifter they have a lot more weight to throw behind the push.

I read an EU report a few months back stating eight Eurpean nations have higher rates of male obesity than the USA. Germany and Greece were two of the countries. I can't exactly remember the other six but they were Balkan and East European I believe. I also seem to remember that Australia, Canada and the UK were listed as being close to the USA.

I'm guessing it's because Americans are fatter and when they're pushing the shifter they have a lot more weight to throw behind the push.
Hey!
That's all muscle :Eyecrazy:

...and we're not all fat.

http://sixpackabs.homestead.com/files/closeab6.JPG

Yum.

Wow, is that the guy for the Village People?