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- From: jleung@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (A St. Xavier alum)
- Subject: Re: Jag auto trans
- References: <Mf37Jey00VI=423EY3@andrew.cmu.edu> <By0nIG.6oB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <By0yx6.E0v@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:51:20 GMT
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- In article <By0yx6.E0v@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (REAL LIFE?!?! HA!!) writes:
- >svissa@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sirish Vissa) writes:
- >
- >>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 :)
- >
- I beleive that this was the Sunbeam Tiger, I think.
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- >
- >Michael T. Chaffee |******BOYCOTT COLORADO******| ______
- >mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu | Professional Slapthologist | \ / HATE
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