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Re: [OM] A rental car for Scotland

Subject: Re: [OM] A rental car for Scotland
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:05:43 +1300
Chuck wrote
> I think the greatest curse is cruise control that can't control the 
> car's speed on steep hills.  That's one reason (there are more) why I'm
> glad to be rid of my Toyota Sienna and have replaced it with a Chrysler
> Town & Country.  AFAIK, only Chrysler products will downshift the
> transmission to maintain speed if necessary on steep grades.
> 
> When we were traveling in the mountains of the west in our (then) Buick
> Lucerne I remember several times being surprised to discover that I was
> going 85-90 mph on some steep mountain roads with cruise control set at
> 70-75.  That wouldn't happen in my Chrysler LHS and (I assume but not
> tested yet) Town & Country.

My 17 yo Rangie, in cruise control, for all its faults, can and does change 
down going up a hill if it needs to, and going down a hill will throttle back 
to 
maintain the required road speed.

Brian Swale
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