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Old 12-20-2008, 02:50 PM   #11
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It has that adaptive throttle-by-wire system and it's learned my driving habits very well!
This is the key to the new generation of auto boxes.
The old days of the the "dumb and dumber" slush boxes are gone.

The new ones are faster smoother and more FE than some of the best manually driven cars.
Sad but true.

Let's face who these days even know you are meant to blip the throttle on the downchange to equalise revs?...apart from people on this board I mean.

Pete.
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