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RE: Volvo competing with Audi
As far as I know, this is how the new "sequential" gearbox in BMW M3
works.
Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Dikeman [SMTP:brett@arthur.malebolge.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 1997 8:44 PM
> To: Fringe Ryder
> Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: Re: Volvo competing with Audi
>
> At 7:45 PM -0600 on 11/25/97, Fringe Ryder wrote:
> [...]
> There are various manual-autos out there that are neat, and those
> might be
> a good substitute...I remember reading that Porsche built an
> experimental
> manual gearbox with stuff to make it an "automatic" with "manual"(ie,
> up/down buttons) control. They showed a picture; it was rediculous.
> Huge,
> overweight, required a large amount of robotic/controlling ciruitry,
> was
> extremely complex and hard to repair. They gave up after building one
> prototype.
>
> Brett
>
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> Brett Dikeman
> dikemanb@stu.beloit.edu dikemanb@edison.ma.ultranet.com
> ~)-|
> Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
> Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
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>