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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by jfitbsidbfb on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:15AM (#12975781)
My 1998 Saturn noticeably cut fuel on deceleration, it was easy to tell since the exhaust system was perpetually breaking
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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by bborud on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:41AM (#12975928)
Come to think of it: the car I drove in 1988 cut fuel when coasting and it had a rather unrefined ECU mapping that would cause somewhat hard transitions from the fuel-cut state to feeding the engine go-juice.
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