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      06-04-2019, 08:58 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by KingOfJericho View Post
I actually think the story is much the opposite. Ford was an automotive superpower while Ferrari was largely a boutique racing company who sold road cars to support the habit. Ferrari were racing specialists, not rich nor aristocratic. Everyone knows the story but it's really a prideful owner of said boutique not wanting to sell out to the superpower of his industry. The superpower then threw a ton of money and effort into crushing them at their own game... and won.
Let's clarify... threw "tons of money" in a short period of time... and won.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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