Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Originally posted by Jeb Hoge:
... I hear that on the Mazda 3 (and maybe the 6), the car won't stall if you don't give it enough gas when letting out the clutch...it'll throttle up just enough to keep it alive.



Ooooo, niiice...

I had an old Subaru Loyal Station Wagon 4x4 (1990). Aside from being the most capable car I have ever driven in the snow (true locking 4x4), it had a sweet feature called "Hill Holder". If you pressed in the clutch and fully depressed the brake, you could release the brake and as long as you kept the clutch pedal in, the brake would hold. It was awesome for coming to a stop on a hill at a stop sign or in traffic. Very much like using your e-brake to stop from rolling backward on a hill, except it was built into the clutch/brake mechanism. I have yet to see it on another car with a manual tranny ... they must have a patent on it or something.

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