Re: Les cars

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

At 07:04 PM 11/16/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Is that more advanced or is it just 'bling' in black and white?
>
> Peter, weeks (months?) ago, I wrote that 7- and 8-speed automatics were 
> overkill: flexibility modest, fuel-savings minimal.  Lexus' move is more a 
> signal to German manufacturers and American buyers than a mean technical 
> coup, but,   that said, in the world where more seems to mean better in 
> too many things, Japan is still in the pursuit of, ahem, 
> perfection.  Where America still needs more to be.
<snip>

I may be mis-remembering things, but if I remember right from Autoline 
Detroit last weekend (maybe the weekend before), GM had an 8 speed 
automatic back in the 40's. That being true, how big of a technological 
feat is it for Lexus to do the same thing 60 years later?

Matt

mhaas@xxxxxxx
Cincinnati, OH
http://www.mattsoldcars.com
1967 Rambler American wagon
1968 Rambler American sedan
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