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There is a lot of misinformation about this issue. The hesitation to accelerate past a given speed has nothing to do with your transmission. It is something with in your engine. Based on what you described, I would suspect a dirty fuel filter or clogged injectors. I would also look into the fuel pick up which is located in the fuel tank. However, unless there was some dirt that got into the fuel tank, I doubt that fuel system is the culprit. The symptoms sounds a lot like fuel starvation. There is a self diagnose system built into your car. You need to jump two connectors that is in the diagnostic port which is located either on your wire harness toward the fire wall inside the engine bay or it is just below your steering shaft. Refer to your owners manual to find out where you diagnostic port is. It will also show you which terminals you need to jump to activate the self diagnose. Once you activate the self diagnose feature it should flash a code which is generally your check engine light. If all is normal it will flash at a steady speed. If there is something wrong, then it will flash-pause-flash again. The way to identify the code is by counting the flash. What I mean by this is: For example, if the check engine light flash steadily twice then pause and flash tree times, the error code will be 23 and so on. Once this code is identified, you can refer to the repair manual or call a reputable Toyota mechanic to find out what that code means. This is one way to quickly identify if there is a sensor or something else is faulty. If you can't find someone reputable to give you the information on the error code, if there is one, just e-mail me the code information and I'll look it up for you. My e-mail addy is [email protected] That said, don't listen to anyone who tell you to manually shift gears on your auto trans. It utter crap and made up useless BS. Your auto trans gears are shifted by electric solenoids. The point at which the gears are sifted is based on your engine load and speed. Rush hour traffic in Los Angeles is some of the worst in the world. I drive my car daily about 100 miles to and from work doing 20-30mph stop and go traffic and never move the shifter from D at any point. I have put hundred of thousand miles over the years with zero issues or ever having to move the shifter manually. Here is my initial impression. 1. Faulty water temperature sensor 2. Faulty throttle position sensor 3. Faulty speed sensor 3. Faulty ECU This is assuming that you don't have any foreign matter in your fuel system. Sample of what your diagnostic port should look like. Yours may be different but this will give you an idea as to what it look like. Where the wire it pluged into. This is if it's in the engine conpartment. May not be next to the fuse box but it'll look similar. Good luck.

Thanks Damith. Sold the Supra couple of years back. I notice that some links, including any f a c e b o o k links, that is placed here get replaced with ### signs at the beginning. What is the reason for it?

Don, The track configuration that Top Gear uses does lean the advantage toward high powered cars. However, it's not by much as the straight aways are not all that long. Most of the turns on that track are medium speed with couple of tight turns. The medium speed turns will benefit the cars with good mechanical AND aerodynamic grip while the two slow corners will sway toward the cars with good mechanical grip. High powered cars with good mechanical grip and good aero grip does well on this track. If you look at the lap times of cars below you can see that high HP cars with good downforce are dominating the list. When you look at the time difference between some of the more agile cars, you can see that while they will do really well on a tight track they seems to be at a disadvantage on this particular track. If the track can be set-up with additional 5-6 tight turns, I think it'll level the playing field more. Gumpert Apollo 1.17.1 Ascari A10 1.17.3 Koenigsegg CCX (with Top Gear spoiler) 1.17.6 Pagani Zonda F Roadster 1.17.8 Caterham R500 1.17.9 Bugatti Veyron 1.18.3 Pagani Zonda F 1.18.4 Maserati MC12 1.18.9 Ferrari Enzo 1.19.0 Ariel Atom 1.19.5 Lamborghini LP560 1.19.5 Ferrari Scuderia 1.19.7 Nissan GT-R 1.19.7 Lamborghini LP640 1.19.8 Porsche Carerra GT 1.19.8 Koenigsegg CCX 1.20.4 Ascari KZ1 1.20.7 Mercedes McLaren SLR 1.20.9 Ferrari 599GTB 1.21.2 Ford GT 1.21.9 Ferrari 360 CS 1.22.3 Porsche GT3 RS 1.22.3 Corvette Z06 1.22.4 Noble M15 1.22.5 Murcielago 1.23.7 Zonda 1.23.8 Koenigsegg 1.23.9 Aston Martin DBS 1.23.93 Veritas RS III 1.24.2 Prodrive P2 1.24.3 Audi R8 1.24.4 TVR Sagaris 1.24.6 Mitsubishi Evo FQ400 1.24.8 TVR Tuscan 1.24.8 Noble M400 1.25.0 Lotus Exige S 1.25.1 BMW M3 Saloon 1.25.3 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder 1.25.7 Lamborghini Gallardo 1.25.8 BMW Z4 M 1.26.0 Porsche Cayman 1.26.2 Porsche 911 Carrera 2S 1.26.2 Brabus Biturbo Roadster 1.26.2 Lotus Exige 1.26.4 Chevrolet Corvette 1.26.8 Lexus IS-F 1.26.8 Mercedes CLS 55 AMG 1.26.9 Aston Martin Vanquish S 1.27.1 Aston Martin DB9 1.27.1 Porsche 911 GT3 1.27.2 TVR 350C 1.27.5 BMW M3 CSL 1.28.0 Roush Mustang 1.28.0 Marcos TSO GT2 1.28.2 Subaru WRX Sti 1.28.2 Mitsubishi Evo X 1.28.22 Dodge Viper SRT-10 1.28.5 MG SV 1.28.6 Porsche 911 Carrera S 1.28.9 Mitsubishi Evo VIII 1.28.9 BMW Alpina Z8 1.29.0 Mercedes CL65 1.29.0 VW Golf W12 1.29.6 Alfa 3.7 GTA Autodelta 1.30.0 Ford Shelby GT500 1.30.0 Subaru Impreza STI 1.30.1 Vauxhall Monaro VXR 1.30.1 Aston Martin DB7 GT 1.30.4 Golf R32 1.30.4 Audi S4 1.30.9 Porsche 911 Turbo 1.31.0 Vauxhall VX220 turbo 1.31.3 Vauxhall VXR8 1.31.3 New Audi TT 1.31.4 Honda NSX Type R 1.31.6 BMW M3 1.31.8 Nissan 350Z 1.31.8 Mazda RX-8 1.31.8 BMW 535d 1.31.8 BMW 130 1.31.9 Ford Focus RS 1.32.2 Mazda 6 MPS 1.32.2 Lotus Esprit V8 1.32.5 Audi TT V6 1.32.7 MG ZT 1.33.0 Noble M12 GTO 1.33.1 Mercedes SL 55 AMG 1.33.2 Volkswagen Golf R32 1.33.2 Cadillac CTS 1.33.3 Honda Civic Type-R 1.33.5 Holden Monaro 1.33.9 Ford Mondeo ST220 1.34.5 Jaguar XKR 1.34.7 Ford Focus ST 1.34.9 Volvo S60R 1.35.0 Ferrari 575M 1.35.2 Vauxhall Vectra VXR 1.35.3 Our Car 1.35.4 Fiat 500 Abarth 1.35.5 Alfa 147 GTA 1.35.6 Lotus Elise 1.35.6 Aston Martin Vanquish 1.36.2 Renault Clio V6 1.36.2 Honda Civic Type R 1.36.5 Alfa Romeo Brera 1.36.9 Saab 95 Aero 1.37.9 Maserati 3200 GT 1.38.0 Alfa Romeo 8C 1.38.2 Bowler Wildcat 1.39.4 Bentley Arnarge 1.40.8 Overfinch Range Rover 1.44.0 Aston Martin DB5 1.46.0

The car looked good. Bit more power, bigger engine, more torque at a lower RPM and a feature that blips the throttle when you downshift. This is nothing new but for a true manual trans car, with a clutch pedal, this supposed to be a world's first. http://www.nissanusa.com/370z/?intcmp=370z...omepage.Home.P2

I'm in love with this bike. Super Moto is starting to gain momentum in the US. Especially the 09 models. Far more manufacturers are coming out with the supermoto in 09 than they have in the past. Wonder how I should approach the little woman with this bright idea

Happy B day man. Hope you plan on a being drunk most of the day.

Don't know what's the name of the guy is. He is part of the No Limit crew that goes around the country and put on these shows. Vid below http://community.motozania.com/_IMS-Long-B...6137/29029.html

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I'm on a roll

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Ducati Desmosedici. $70K for this bike.

Most of the major manufacturers are bringing the 09 out. Not much of a change from 08 except for the new Yamaha R1.

Very good question... No idea what it started as.

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