“Chrysler canceled its contract with Germany-based Getrag Corp.it has a Indiana plant that is said to be 80 percent complete which would employ about 1,200 workers….”

“It now plans to supply Ford with dual-clutch transmissions, but the company’s planned Mexican assembly plant will probably be able to provide the needed gearboxes.”

And I ask my self some time why do I keep sticking up for U.S. brads…

A German made in Mexico…..

It wont be the 1st time…..

….

yarddog82abn, Stop talking to yourself. It’s just weird.

I was about to say that this lawsuit makes no sense. Getrag didn’t have the money to finish building a plant in the US so CHRYSLER is going to suit the company for money to do what? Finish the factory?

It’s a mindless money grab and we all know it. I hate it when any company gets all desperate and stuff. They just do the danged stupidest things.

Maybe MERCEDES-BENZ or TOYOTA will step up. To cut costs on some models, it would make sense.

At least he doesn’t call his own name and then look over his shoulder…

You keep sticking to US “brads” [sic] because you are an idiot who doesn’t know how to use a period.

That’s piss poor, because those are the best transmissions mankind has yet to develop.

Only the handicapped need dual clutch or any other kind of automatic transmission. If you’re able bodied you should know how to use 3 pedals and a stick shift. And since when did they start broadcasting television in color?

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crackerhemi

“You keep sticking to US “brads” [sic] because you are an idiot who doesn’t know how to use a period.”

Dude what is your problem? For the longest you got this thing for me WTF?

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM????????

lol johnnycanukc, the truth is, I’m 100% behind you, but at the same time, dual clutch is pretty much the best thing to ever happen to the ****ty automatic transmission. ****, I’d trade a wasteful torque converter for a dual clutch any day of the week. Now when it comes to enjoying driving, well, stick has no competitor…

Johnny, the answer is 1953. Of course, there were many different demonstrations and botched attempts prior to 1953, but it wasn’t until 1953 that anyone really started broadcasting with the same color NTSC system that we know today. For you European folks, color wasn’t broadcast regularly until 1967. And for Asia, 1960 was the first real introduction to color television.

That’s cool beatus. I’ll bet when they made the switch it was also done manually.

At that time, yes it was. In fact, this new digital transition will be done manually, as well.

@beatusmongous

At least he doesn’t call his own name and then look over his shoulder…

Are you sure?

As far as color transmission: John Logie Baird demonstrated the world’s first color transmission on July 3, 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with filters of a different primary color; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination. Baird also made the world’s first color broadcast on February 4, 1938, sending a mechanically scanned 120-line image from Baird’s Crystal Palace studios to a projection screen at London’s Dominion Theatre. Cut & paste from Wikipedia.
I thought myself that Bell Labs was first, but:
Mechanically scanned color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929 using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full color image.

Borat, you’re right and wrong at the same time. Like I said, those preliminary ones were tests and experiments. For example, my station was broadcasting in high definition way back in 1999, but very few people knew that. In fact, my station was the first to broadcast high definition this side of the Mississippi, but we only ran a loop of video for a demonstration at the NAB convention. The only HDTV sets in Las Vegas at that time were on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center, so we can’t technically say we were “broadcasting in HD” yet. We have been broadcasting in digital for quite a few years, though.

Johnny’s question was “when did they start broadcasting in color?” If he’s referring to the way we see it today, so the answer is “1953 as established by the NTSC.” However, if you’re asking when a color TV was first invented, well, that was back in 1928.

If you want to “stir the stick” and think it makes driving more fun, I won’t argue with you.

If you want to win a race, then get a DCT. It is faster and more capable than any one person with a Standard. You also spend more brain time worrying about the next turn than the next gear.

Even if some legendary race driver could shift a standard fast enough to beat another driver with a DCT equipped car of comparable performance, that does not mean you could. There is a reason why The best sports car makers in the world are steadily switching over to DCT/DSG transmissions.

When you want to win you use the best equipment.

I have yet to hear anyone complain that the GT-R35 has and only has a Dual Clutch Tranny and that it IS faster in full auto than manual. Or Porsche having their own DCT and that is faster than with their manuals. The list is getting longer. Many of the fastest production cars have DCTs or some other high performing Auto, at least, as an option.

“Chrysler bankrupts Getrag”

I’m telling u right now… If we go down, we’re taking everybody with us!

Shame cause dual clutch trannys are sweet. Maybe FoMoCo will outlast all this crap and offer them in their lineup.