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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Real Life?!?! HA!!)
- Subject: Re: Fact or Dealer B.S. - You be the Judge
- References: <1993Jan21.184833.28637@gumby.dsd.trw.com> <C184uH.FEq@cs.dal.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:26:24 GMT
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- gajewski@ug.cs.dal.ca (Andy) writes:
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- >In <1993Jan21.184833.28637@gumby.dsd.trw.com> Judson West <jwest@r3vm.dsd.trw.com> writes:
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- [Dealer claims transmission "remembers" basic driving patterns and alters shift
- behavior accordingly.]
- >>Is this fact or fiction??
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- >If you ask me I think it is B.S. because 1) I never heard of such a feature
- >2) If it was that great, I'm sure it would be highly advertised
- >3) My friend has a synchro and he knows all about the passat and he never
- >mentioned any thing like this to me.
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- Like I said, I can't speak for VW's as such, but most new cars have this
- feature. I think the reason you don't see it advertised is that the general
- public (morons) would fail completely to see any benefit from this system;
- uct of Christian piety." - Leonard Peikoff |
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