Re:What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010)
by leetcrew on Sunday November 18, 2018 @10:35AM
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i would like to see a source on this. i often see DCT or CVT versions of a car that are more efficient, but afaik, traditional fluid coupling automatics still have a hard time beating a manual transmission in the same car.
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Re:What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010)
by NikolaeVarius on Sunday November 18, 2018 @11:35AM
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It's reached the point the inefficiency of humans reduces the overall fuel economy of a manual to equal or below a modern automatic
https://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/18/greenlings-why-do-automa...
Re:What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010)
by rootusrootus on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:40PM
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Modern automatics spend very little time with the fluid coupling. They engage a lockup converter as soon as possible. Combine that with more gears and a computer choosing the shift points, and they are now more efficient than a manual transmission. It's been that way for perhaps the last 10 years or so.
Want a source? Start perusing the manufacturer specs and fuelly pages for cars that still have both options.
Re:What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010)
by twblalock on Sunday November 18, 2018 @04:00PM
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Traditional fluid-coupling automatics are not the only ones on the market. A lot of cars now have dual-clutch automatics, and there are others that combine a fluid coupling with a computer-controlled clutch.
Fuel economy tests in many different countries have confirmed that automatic transmission can indeed be more efficient than the manual transmission in the same car.