I'm not sure what the differences are between manual and automatic transmission design, but the manual for my old a/t car says that you cannot tow it in neutral for a long time -- a/t is going to overheat and go boom. Anybody knows why? 1985 4000s Quattro + Callaway Turbo -- Eugene Tyurin, Ph.D. http://www.physics.sunysb.edu/~gene/