01-19-2007, 10:54 AM
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Packard strengths for 1956 included a great V8 engine and their very own pushbutton automatic transmission, a well regarded unit called Ultramatic. Also perhaps the first availability in any production-car of the LSD, which complemented the (unique?) suspension system that featuring two longitudinal torsion bars that ran the length of the wheelbase and linked front-to-rear, thus enhancing stability and providing a form of self-levelling
US admirers of the marque once bitterly referred to Packard's demise as 'the marque we can not afford to lose' 
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