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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by ubercore on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:49PM (#12980191)
I'm pretty far out of my element here, but as I understand even that isn't universal. BMW's Valvetronic for instance doesn't engine break the same way as other engines, because they don't have a throttle valve and don't have a vacuum outside the intake valves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKfcV7hITYI

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