file.newsgroup.cars.103383 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Theodore Chen)
Subject: Re: SHO and SC
In article [email protected] (James P. Callison) writes:
>Why anyone would order an SHO with an automatic transmission is
>beyond me; if you can't handle a stick, you should stick with a
>regular Taurus and leave the SHO to real drivers. That is not to
>say that there aren't real drivers who can't use the stick (eg
>disabled persons), but they aren't in any position to use an
>SHO anyway.
actually, disabled persons have been known to drive in SCCA
races. i'd be careful about making sweeping generalizations here.
i'd prefer a manual transmission, but the early SHO had an
awful transmission that felt like it came out of a truck or something.
it was almost enough to make me want an automatic.
-teddy