On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:27:20 +0200, Eero Ahonen wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> This was true on my old 3-speed Duster as well.  It was usually going
>> from 3rd to 2nd.  In my automatic, which I think is a 4-speed, I can
>> drop to 3rd and that's usually sufficient.
> 
> Heh. My secondary summer toy has a long-geared BW37 automatic
> transmission. When floored, it kickdowns to 1st up to 60km/h and to 2nd
> up to 100km/h speeds, changes up to 2nd on 75km/h and to 3rd at 120km/h
> :).

Yeah, I can push my Saturn to downshift as well - when I got my first one 
back in '93, that took a little getting used to.

Jim

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