915
You guys have to end it (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
256 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Not just EVs, modern beltless CVTs and automatic transmissions make manual transmissions practically obsolete. With a wider set of gear ranges and way better performance and reliability they're better in almost every way than a stick shift. That said, doesn't matter how good a transmission is if it's undersized for the engine, so I'm not say the transmission in any particular vehicle is good, just the tech has developed in recent years

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    those transmissions are only better on paper. sure they could be theoretically better but in practice the transmission programming is to way over aggressively upshift in order to miser out a little more fuel economy on paper (but in practice they waste fuel)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    True, and as someone who's been driving the same stick shift for almost 15 years now, you can take it from my cold dead hands. I haven't seen anything with a beltless cvt, and I haven't seen an automatic transmission I like more than my five speed, except in traffic. The tech exists, although it's not available.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent