On Fri, 27 May 2022 16:55:45 +0100
"NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

> I did once have the misfortune to be a passenger in a car driven by
> someone who had been driving for probably 20 years (she was not a new
> driver) and she had the habit of coming right off the power, engaging
> the new gear, letting the clutch up on an idling engine (with one
> hell of a lurch!) and then applying power. I'd only been driving a
> few years but I'd been taught the rudiments of rev-matching by my
> instructor (ex police Class 1 instructor) who was keen to show
> newly-passed drivers how to do it "properly". Should I say anything?
> After she apologised after a particularly bad lurch, I very tactfully
> suggested that maybe there was another way (I avoided the word
> "better"!) which might reduce the lurches. She thought it was her car
> and asked me to drive to see. Allowing for a couple of minutes to get
> used to a strange car's clutch bite point and graunchy
> gear-selection, I drove it "differently" and she was mystified.
>

I had a similar experience, as a passenger in a fellow student's Cortina
Estate. Every gearchange terminated in a 'Bang' as the clutch was just
drop released, with no attempt to match engine speed. Luckily it was
only one short journey, and I often wondered how long the clutch and
even the gearbox lasted after all that terrible treatment.
I sympathised with the car, even though I had no great love for Fords.

--
Davey.