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When we went up Big Bear/Lake Arrowhead we brought the Subaru Forester along. It has an automatic gearbox which you can shift manually when the shifter is moved sideways from D (sport mode). I used this up and down the mountain roads and did not feel any difficulty with the transmission.
We did the same when we recently visited the steep hills of San Francisco, and it worked wonderfully. Only comment I have is I wish the transmission would lock in position (if I was in gear and facing up a steep hill, releasing the brake would let the car slide backwards slightly). So I use the hand brake to hold the car, then step slightly on the gas as I release the handbrake. This gets it going. My 300D did not have this problem when we visited a while back too.
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