10-28-2016, 10:04 PM | #23 | |
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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10-29-2016, 06:52 AM | #27 | |
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The Government helps out most every industry in one why or another, whether its is farming, financial, or energy. GM's "bailout" was just more public than most. I'm not happy it was a move by O'Bama to gain favor (payback maybe?) from the UAW, but I think when you look at it from a industry perspective, it saved a lot of jobs and protected pretty much the entire US automotive industry from a serious shit load of heartache. For one, Ford really would have been up shits creek being that it leveraged the entire company assets to secure financing for operations while it got new, better product to market. Had the whole US automotive industry taken a hit by GM failing, it would have impacted Ford as well. Now as far as Chrysler... selling out to Fiat, that's my political decision; I'll never by a Mopar from now on. I mean how many models can it ring out of a 20-year old Mercedes Benz S-Class chassis?
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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10-30-2016, 03:18 PM | #28 | |
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As for "hard on for Buick", you mean actually posting sales numbers because they are facts and not throwing out ideas that are based on your preference?
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