I can verify this from experience - driving the '70 220D, manual on the column - all four speeds. It was a great car until it rusted out from under me, it's first 100,000 miles were in MN, daily driver.
On 10/19/06, Loren Faeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, first in the four speeds on the column is good to get you rolling, but not much more. When starting out from a stop sign and making a turn, the first shift point on a diesel was as soon as you are in the intersection and turning. It took some coordination to make that shift in a turn. I think the gearing in the autos are pretty much the same as the analogous manual trans if you were really speedy, you could make one shift going into the turn and the next while exiting the intersection. I am talking normal 2 lane city streets here.
-- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives." Sir Winston Churchill '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager
