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Article: FIRST GAS-SAVING TRANSMISSION ENDS PRODUCTION
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- PR Newswire
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- August 11, 1993
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LIVONIA, Mich., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In the 1980s, the Ford Automatic Overdrive (AOD) Transmission revolutionized the automobile industry, and saved Americans millions of gallons in gasoline. Today marked the end of an era, as the last AOD transmission rolled off the assembly line at Ford's (NYSE: F) Livonia Transmission Plant. Nine million AOD transmissions have been installed into Ford, and Lincoln-Mercury cars and trucks.
The AOD was the first domestically produced automatic overdrive transmission when it went into production in the spring of 1979. Its four speeds resulted in a substantial increase in fuel economy over the three-speed models offered by Ford and ...