1st World Problems: Valet Parking a Manual

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Looking at upgrading my car this week and will most likely be a manual as I'm bored of automatics or automated manuals!

One question being a typical lazy fat expat I tend to valet park a lot but I have serious doubts about letting one of those fine gentlemen ride the clutch on my car all the way around the carpark costing me a small fortune in exotic car pieces.

So avoiding the obvious answer of "park it yourself you git", would you trust any of these guys to know how to drive a manual properly?

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The answer is as expected so, park it yourself.

@After Shock, yeah mate I stumbled across a low mileage, bond spec DBS with two years warranty that I'm struggling to get out of my head. The R8 is a great car but not enough drama for my one day a week car. I got low balled by the dealer so I'm going to look into selling mine first and if I get the right price for it that will open up a few options. If not, I’ll just keep the R8 for another few months

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matrignano said:

I'm sure the fly-off handbrake will cause them some bother as well

To give credit where it's due, I couldn't even get the handbrake off on the test drive. Still it's a nice out of the ordinary feature as is fishtailing every time you put your put down

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After_Shock said:

Ah fantastic, same grey colour as the bond car? Cant be many in the UAE!

Yup, it's the grey from Quantum of Solace rather than the lighter silver from Casino Royale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfYC_CBNtiM

Just need to flog my car first......