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StellantisHy-Drive
Production1953–1954
ClassAutomobile
Background
The Hy-Drive was a Chrysler Corporation semi-automatic transmission introduced in 1953 in US-market Plymouths. It was a hybrid manual transmission equipped with a torque converter, like an automatic. Although Hy-Drive cars had a clutch pedal like a traditional manual transmission, it was only used to put the car in gear. Once underway, the driver could upshift and downshift using the gear shift without using the clutch or even lifting off the accelerator.
Text adapted from “Hy-Drive” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
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