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Re: Les cars



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.
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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

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