Re: Death of the manual,automanuals etc. (longish) Was:

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 10 1997 - 19:10:11 EDT


At 05:22 PM 10/10/97 -0400, AJRoss50@aol.com wrote:
>This ideal transmission you wrote about is actually available(well, close
>anyways) in a Ferrari F355. It is called the F1 and cost about $8000, but,
>if you can afford a Ferrari, you can afford the transmission. I think it
>uses a paddle of the steering wheel to change gears. Where the normal gear
>shift lever is, there is a small T-Handle to select forward, reverse, auto or
>manual. It is the same system the use in the F1 race cars. There is an
>article on it in this month's Car and Driver or Motortrend.
>

  Yep, I read that article. (In Car & Driver. There was also another
article on automanuals, which sort of got me thinking on this whole thing.)
 I think automanuals have a way to go before I'll buy one. :-) (Hence my
"wish list"
automanual.)

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