# Old Puzzler...Corolla Manual Trans.?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-puzzler-corolla-manual-trans/30611>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [May 18, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-puzzler-corolla-manual-trans/30611 "2009-05-18T03:54:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JPKansas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jpkansas/32/1200_2.png) [@JPKansas](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JPKansas)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-puzzler-corolla-manual-trans/30611/1 "2009-05-18T03:54:28Z")

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Okay, this is driving me nuts!  
  
  
  
 About a year or year and a half ago, there was a puzzler about (forgive me if I don’t remember all details!) a guy looking for a new corolla. He told the dealer that it has to be a manual transmission.  
  
  
  
 From what I remember, they actually walked through the lot looking in windows…all automatics. But from two rows away, the guy says to the dealer, “Over there! There’s a manual corolla!” The dealer walked over there first, looked in the window and sure enough, it was a manual!! The dealer was astonished!  
  
  
  
 Now. How did he know from a distance?  
  
  
  
 My first thought was the exhaust exit, thinking that it differed from auto. But, they did specify that he saw the car from the front. I called my brother and he agreed with my assumption.  
  
  
  
 I think he saw that there was not Automatic transmission cooling lines in front of radiator.  
  
  
  
 I missed the show the next week.  
  
  
  
 Please let me know what the answer was OR if you can dig through the old puzzler archives.  
  
  
  
 Thanks so much!

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**Author:** ![rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@rockford](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rockford)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-puzzler-corolla-manual-trans/30611/2 "2009-05-18T04:01:13Z")

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Copy-and-paste this link for the answer:

[www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200740/answer.html](http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200740/answer.html)

(I couldn’t get it to show as a clickable link.)

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**Author:** ![JPKansas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jpkansas/32/1200_2.png) [@JPKansas](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JPKansas)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-puzzler-corolla-manual-trans/30611/3 "2009-05-18T04:22:59Z")

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MAN! What a gyp! WINDOW STICKER?! Where’s the mystery in that? LOL! Am I even close with the coolant lines theory? Guess I was thinking too mechanically!

JP#3

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**Author:** ![hellokit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6a8cbe/32.png) [@hellokit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hellokit)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 9:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-puzzler-corolla-manual-trans/30611/4 "2009-05-18T09:50:34Z")

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Tom and Jerry do try to entertain!