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- From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Auto-stick
- Message-ID: <4151@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:09:02 GMT
- Article-I.D.: unisql.4151
- References: <1dck4tINNqj3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <BxAtpu.41y@encore.com> <1992Nov6.135637.11563@bsu-ucs>
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- In article <1992Nov6.135637.11563@bsu-ucs> 01ksdavis@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Rebel without a clue.) writes:
- > It is known as the semi-automatic transmission. Other names for it
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- A guy I used to know had a VW convertible with one of these. AND
- an air-conditioner. The semi-auto tranny had 2 gears, and you picked
- high or low depending on how fast the car was moving. Between the 2 speed
- tranny, the air conditioning compressor, and the fact that those VW flat fours
- put out like 60 horsepower, this car was the slowest thing on 4 wheels. I'd
- driven forklifts that could out-accelerate it.
-