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Rating the ratios

It’s rather surprising how long it took manufacturers and customers to realise that providing suitable drive ratios was well worth the extra cost and complication.

friend used to claim quite seriously that his Mini-van had a five-speed gearbox, simply because he could select first, second, third, top and neutral. It would have made more sense if he’d included reverse in his boast, because the sole purpose of a

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