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I just tested a Dualogic FIAT 500. The box behaved perfectly. I was then set on a Dualogic Panda, but at the last minute was told that it was no longer produced. FIAT folk just do not seem to know if it's on the menu for 2010. Are there problems? In that case a Dualogic 500 seems undesirable as a second choice,

Asked on 23 January 2010 by D.M., via e-mail

Answered by Honest John
In my experience FIAT's Dualogic works better than any other automated manual, allowing full throttle upchanges without ‘lunging’. FIAT is probably concentrating production at the Tichy plant in Poland on the cars it can make most money from. Which is 500s rather than Pandas. The Tichy plant is running flat out, 3 shifts a day. Possibly the only auto plant in the World (apart from the Prius plant) that is.

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