>>Is that more advanced or is it just 'bling' in black and white?<snip>
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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