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Originally Posted by bsp
But I have to ask: is it normal to resort to those tricks in a rather new BMW, like I had to some good time ago with cars one tenth the price?
If so, then it's the same '60 stuff inside a more beautiful box... I sincerely cannot believe that.
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Has nothing to do with the price of the car but rather the way gears are cut. there is a great technical explanation for this 'why is it sometimes hard to find first or reverse question' on the
www.nasioc.com subaru website (which I can't find right now). You are correct by the way it really is 'the same '60s stuff' in the gearbox. There hasn't been a fundamental change in gearbox design until recently when 'dual clutch' gearboxes came out