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Old 05-17-2010, 04:44 PM   #81 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dcb View Post
"Lets play games with the gearing so we sell more of the expensive model"?

To me that is beyond despicable. Why can't consumers have a choice of ratios? So the would be sport "in a fiesta?!?" crowd can waste gas but the rest of us can save gas.
Probably because they don't think there'll be enough of a market in the USA to justify the cost of offering (and marketing) a fuel-economy-geared manual transmission.

And they're probably right!

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