You're better off using a waiter's corkscrew with a long worm (the spirally part) than one of those automatic lever-handle-type wine openers.
And although the Land Cruiser has an excellent transmission, with sharp downshifts (and the helpful overdrive lockout on the four-speed automatic shift lever) for passing, at highway speeds the engine lacks the passing power you really need.
Although the skin of the new T-Bird is actually quite restrained, the interior of two-tone models which come with bold swatches of colored, molded plastic on the five-speed automatic shift lever and on the top arc of the steering wheel all but broadcasts late-1950s exuberance.
Our tester W8 wagon had a mere 9,181 miles on the odometer when it arrived, but it clearly had warped front brake rotors, a rattle in the automatic transmission lever from overzealous shifting in the manual mode, and bushings that had already been flogged at a level equivalent to what 100,000 miles of driving by any ordinary owner might do.
Press the automatic threading lever.
Oldsmobile one-upped the T-Bird's aeronautic-themed interior; the Starfire was one of the first American cars with a console-mounted automatic transmission shift lever.
In manual mode, the driver prompts shifts with steering wheel paddles or a floor lever; fully automatic operation is also possible.
He retrieved a rifle, took the boy to the front courtyard, inserted a magazine, chambered a round and set the weapon's selector lever on automatic.
If you are driving an automatic, put the shift lever into low gear (D1, 1, or L, check your owners manual).
In his report, the judge recommended modification of the lever actuating the automatic pilot.
