Automatic Car Hire » A History of the Automatic Car http://www.automaticcarhire.co.uk Just Guaranteed Automatic Car Rental Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:58:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The 1960’s and Beyond! http://www.automaticcarhire.co.uk/a-history-of-the-automatic-car/1960s/ http://www.automaticcarhire.co.uk/a-history-of-the-automatic-car/1960s/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:38:32 +0000 admin http://www.automaticcarhire.co.uk/?p=14 By the late 1960s most of the fluid-coupling four-speeds and two-speed transmissions had disappeared in favor of three-speed units with torque converters. By this time too you would also be able to take advantage of an automatic car rental with automatics now common place in the fleets of Avis and Hertz.

Also thankfully for today’s remaining

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]]> http://www.automaticcarhire.co.uk/a-history-of-the-automatic-car/1960s/feed/ 0 The Early Days http://www.automaticcarhire.co.uk/a-history-of-the-automatic-car/early-days/ http://www.automaticcarhire.co.uk/a-history-of-the-automatic-car/early-days/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:49:13 +0000 admin http://www.automaticcarhire.co.uk/?p=8 The first mass produced vehicles with a fully automatic gearbox was Oldsmobile’s 1940 models. This was called the Hyrda-matic and was exclusive to Oldsmobile and provided four speeds and reverse.

Such was the success of the vehicle fellow car companies Pontiac and Cadillac adopted the gearbox and subsequently sold to other car makers including the British

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