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HMS_Beagle
Oct 03, 2016Explorer
^^ This thinking is very out of date. None of the big three offer a manual anymore for good reasons, one of which is durability. Most urban heavy trucks have automatics these days, for the same reasons.
The Allison was the first (American) transmission to try to emulate some of the utility of a manual, and everyone has gotten much better at it since.
If you haven't driven one of the automatics in a new truck (last 4-5 years) you really can't appreciate how far they have come. I can think of no advantage to an automatic over the Ford 6R140 that I now drive.
The Allison was the first (American) transmission to try to emulate some of the utility of a manual, and everyone has gotten much better at it since.
If you haven't driven one of the automatics in a new truck (last 4-5 years) you really can't appreciate how far they have come. I can think of no advantage to an automatic over the Ford 6R140 that I now drive.
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