On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:26:09 -0800, "Bill Noble"
wrote:

car could not be shifted into neutral

You're KIDDING??

I'd really like to hear the reasoning behind that design decision.
Where I live, we have icy roads for several months of the year. Being
able to quickly go to neutral (or stomp the clutch for manual
transmissions) is vital when trying to recover from a slide.
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RoRo