Thread: How Many Is Too Many?
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Old January 21st 12, 06:11 PM posted to rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang
Dickr
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Default How Many Is Too Many?
On 1/20/2012 7:47 AM, wrote:
> Lexus and Hyundai currently have 8. Dodge will soon have 9. Now
> seems Hyundai is upping the ante and developing a 10-speed automatic
> transmission. Good god, where does this end? Soon cars will be
> sporting enough gears to make a trucker blush.
>
> Patrick
A friend of mine had a 1957 Chev with a 283 V8, loud dual exhaust and a
Turboglide
transmission. Very different steady tune from the exhaust while the car
increased
in speed but the engine RPM didn't change that much.
Because of its unique operating characteristics, Turboglide did not
require large changes
in engine RPM even with very large differences in car speed or desired
engine output. In fact,
accelerating from rest, the engine speed would remain nearly
constant(with no movement of
the accelerator), even as the vehicle accelerated.

Dick
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