Moving to Cali, should the 'maro?
 

Hey all,

On Tuesday I'm driving with a friend out to Cali. I was originally going to fly back, but I've decided to stay. So I guess the question is, do I sell the car and try and buy something out there, or pay to have it shipped? Oh, I live in Michigan now.

By the way, I would drive it out, but I am still sort of new to a manual, and I really don't want to drive the Rockies in it, so that's out.


Any advice y'all could give would be kickass!

drive it out there, prices are much higher out there for everything, driving through the mountains is easy, it's not like your stopping, you may have to downshift a gear if it starts to bog down, but you don't necissarily have to it's not going to stall

I agree with Arch. Like he said going from a stop is the hardest part and this will be the best way to learn who to drive it. When I turned 16 my dad took me out in his Mustang to learn how to drive (It's a 5spd) and I did ok but once I took out my car (also a 5spd) by myself I really learned how to do it.
Don't worry, you'll be fine.

Sell it dirt cheap to me. :)

or me

I'd say use the trip as a learning experience on how to drive your car better.

not to mention the country is beautiful on the way it's a great drive (give yourself at least a week to do it without wanting to drive off a cliff)

I also say drive it.

drive it, I have to take mine up to NY next summer.

One thing too that I mentioned to him on the other forum, what about emissions in CA? MI has no emissions regulations, he easilly could go to CA and fail.

maybe, from what I saw with my family's cars was cali wasn't that hard to pass unless you did a bunch of mods, and pulled stuff off

what part of cali?