Crazy Vlad's Place of Automobiles

We can't possibly be the only people who think the right caption for Bush-Putin drive-around is "Put it in H," right?

UPDATE: In this version of the picture, Dubya would never be so unwise as to set a bad example for teen drivers by not having two hands on the steering wheel, so he must be giving the hand-signal for turning right. Has Rove suggested some new red meat be tossed to the base?

2nd UPDATE 11 MAY: It turns out that getting the car in gear was indeed the problem. Via Dan Froomkin in the Washington Post:

Elisabeth Bumiller writes in the International Herald Tribune that Bush "found himself struggling to get President Vladimir Putin's gleaming 1956 ivory-colored Volga into gear at the Russian president's dacha outside Moscow in a snafu that wasn't caught in the pictures of the two waving merrily from the windows of the vintage Russian sedan ... but he soon got hung up by the lever of the car's manual gear shift, mounted on the steering column, and, with a flummoxed but determined look on his face, fought to get the car into first gear.

"Soon enough Putin leaned over toward Bush, grabbed the shift lever and slammed it into gear. The car immediately took off, with no awful grinding gear sounds; Bush had evidently kept a good foot on the clutch pedal."

Now, if he had his foot on the clutch, the car wouldn't have taken off. Can Dubya actually drive a manual transmission car?