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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (REAL LIFE?!?! HA!!)
- Subject: Re: Jag auto trans
- References: <1992Nov16.083148.1702@walter.cray.com> <1992Nov16.230423.10418@newstand.syr.edu> <Mf37Jey00VI=423EY3@andrew.cmu.edu> <By0nIG.6oB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:22:15 GMT
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- svissa@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sirish Vissa) writes:
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- >In article <Mf37Jey00VI=423EY3@andrew.cmu.edu> Paul M Taylor <pt1e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >{ stuff deleted }
- >>Yep. It's called most any automatic. The Jag uses a GM TH-400
- >>last time I checked. Later models have the 4L80, a HD, OD version
- >>of the regular 400. Also shift kits set to street-strip will overide
- >>the default upshift.
- >>
- >Sorry Paul,
- > Just could not resist.
- > Last time I checked, Ford owned Jaguar....
- > What would a GM transmission be doing in a Ford car.....
- >just my $.02 worth.
- > sirish
-
- I can't say for sure whether or not you're right, but it wouldn't surprise
- me in the least. The issue of small-volume specialty cars is a very different
- case from most. On the XJS, Ford may have found that the money it saved by
- not retooling and redesigning the drivetrain made up for the indignity of
- having a GM transmission. Besides, car companies can be very friendly and
- businesslike. Look at the Mercedes 500E. That car's more than half built by
- Porsche!
-
- Wasn't there a car in the '60s (I want to say the Cobra but i know that's not
- it) that was owned by Chrysler but had a Ford engine or vice versa?
- Enlighten me, anyone, please (As I'm sure you will :)
-
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