Liberty, SC – A new 5-Speed Transmission with 5th gear as an overdrive is being manufactured by Richmond Gear.

The new Richmond Super Street Transmission is a high performance manual transmission designed to be a bolt-in replacement for both Ford, GM and MOPAR vehicles.

The Super Street is fully rated at 600 ft. lbs. of torque to confidently handle the demands of street performance, hot rods, muscle cars, racing and other high performance applications.  Ratios are available for smooth and aggressive acceleration:  First Gear 3.33 or 2.89, Second Gear 1.85, Third Gear 1.31, Fourth Gear 1:1, and Fifth Gear (over drive) 0.77.

The Super Street comes standard with a Long Shifter for the ultimate in shift performance and durability.

Based on the successful NASCAR-type design and technology, the Super Street is built on the dependable Richmond manual transmission housing.  The design allows for more robust gears and components that provide the torque handling capacity higher horsepower performance vehicles require.

The Richmond Super Street 5-Speed with Over Drive Transmission will be available in early March 2007.

Joint statement attributable to Chrysler Group president and CEO Tom LaSorda, Ford Motor Company president and CEO Alan Mulally, and General Motors chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner regarding the meeting between President George W. Bush and the CEOs of America’s domestic auto industry:

We appreciate the President meeting with us today on issues that we believe are not only critical to the domestic auto industry, but also affect overall American manufacturing competitiveness.

We had a candid and productive discussion on such specific issues as energy security, the affordability and quality of health care, the trade imbalance caused by an artificially weak yen, and the rising costs of vehicle production materials.

Energy Security

We told the President we support his and Congress’ call for the continued development and use of renewable fuels as part of lessening America’s dependence on imported oil. We said that we are willing to do our part to increase the use of renewable fuels and that we stand ready to make half of our annual vehicle production E85 flexible fuel vehicles or capable of running on bio-diesel by 2012. We discussed with the President that as part of an overall national strategy to fully tap the potential of renewable fuels to displace petroleum, any vehicle production increase must be accompanied by continuing incentives that encourage the manufacture, distribution, and availability of renewable fuels and the production of flexible fuel vehicles.

Working together to increase the production of flexible fuel vehicles and the availability of renewable fuels affirms our continued support of the “25 by ‘25” initiative—an effort led by the Energy Future Coalition and supported by agriculture and forestry groups to get 25 percent of the nation’s energy from renewable fuels by 2025. In June, we also agreed collectively to double annual production of vehicles capable of running on renewable fuels to two million cars and trucks by 2010.