Drive-by-wire, was: Scott's indecision (long)

[Wallace White]

Per Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > PS Tess: a car-nut friend and I were recently discussing our top-10
> > automotive horrors. We agreed on one thing: drive-by-wire on the new Alfa
> > 166. :-)
> 
> Is there anything significantly different between the drive-by-wire in the Alfa
> compared to the system used in Audi/VW? I'm not sure I follow here....

This is the Alfa with the electronically controlled manual transmission,
right--F1 style? I'm not sure I'd want to mess with it, but I understand
it blips the throttle automatically on downshifts.... pretty slick.

- Wallace
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