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Old 05-05-2010, 12:52 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Apparently we (you) don't know what empirical data is.

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Manual transmissions are old technology, newer developments in CVT's, dual clutch automated manuals, and the next generation of Infinitely Variable Transmissions will send the old manual to the scrap heap.
Just hop on the train or bus if you want things to be automatic. Don't kill real driving with half baked engineering in search of a problem.
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