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Soren, read in Road and Track that the rhumor is wrong and the clutch pedal in the concept car was a dummy! I was very dissapointed.




By the time this "road test" http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=115459#
was made, it had the 6 speed Viper gearbox in it. Can't imagine the old fliud drive standing up to that engine, so the clutch pedal must have been real. Can't believe a word Road and Track says. Not even the page numbers.



Automatic transmissions were available in all the old "muscle cars" and held up quite well. The C-6, Turbo-400 and 727 were all stout trannys. The ol' cast iron Powerglide was just about bulletproof when built correctly. The HP numbers given aren't really complete (or at least I didn't see it), they should have the RPM for the HP specs, and more importantly have the torque specs, also at RPM. That said, a friend of mine has a 2002 Dodge 3/4 ton with the Cummins deisel and Chryslers auto trans. The factory trans is not able to deal with the power of that engine, high torque at low RPM. So the auto trannys of today might not be as solid as those from "the day".

Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también