One of the greatest innovations of the '80s was the incorporation of overdrive into manual and automatic transmissions. Overdrive has been a terrific means to reduced wear, tear, and fuel consumption ...

Ford's Automatic Overdrive (AOD) transmission arrived in 1980 in full-size Fords, Mercurys, and the Lincoln Continental. As the AOD became available in more applications during the 1980s, including ...

If youve covered some serious highway miles in your street rod or customon Americruise, Power Tour, or other long-distance eventsand youve got a two- or three-speed auto trans, you know how it feels ...

The AOD was not a clean-sheet-of-paper design from Ford-it was based off the venerable three-speed C4 automatic. Now that Ford's automatic overdrive transmission has been around for so long, we ...