Talk:Jaguar Mark IX
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[edit] Transmission?
What kind of transmission options did the Mark IX have? --Ragemanchoo (talk) 00:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- It looks as though it had a manual four speed box with the option of overdrive. A three speed automatic was also available. That's from German wiki, but it's also consistent with what I'd thought and I can source it from an outside reference book (eg Alle Autos der 50er jahre von Roger Gloor published by Motorbuch Verlag of Stuttgart). However, I would GUESS that in the US the Mk IX would have been offered with the three speed automatic as standard, POSSIBLY with the four speed manul as a no-cost option: that's what the market would have xpected, and Jaguar were very focused on export markets - expecially the US - at this time. I guess if you are in the US you can check this to contemporary copies of Car & Driver or equivalent more easily than I....? So which was the standard transmission option probably depends on where you live(d). Regards Charles01 (talk) 07:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
