difference between manual and auto transmission Options

[Toyoca]

I understand the fundamental difference, but can someone explain more to me plz.

[Hanyo]

there are 4 types of transmission in production today:

1) automatic : the usual transmission you see in everyday automatic cars. This is the one everyone complains about effiency and how boring they are to drive. How slow they are. ect....

2) automatic sport shift: this is an automatic transimission that lets you controll it. you will see these in bmw's and lexis. pretty popular these days. They are just an automatic transmission that lets you control how it shifts. nothing special here.

3) automatic manual transmission: you can see these in fancy sports cars like ferriries and aston martins. the more common production model is the audi DSG transmission. ( http://cars.about.com/od/thingsyouneedtokn...owDSGworks.htm) if you want to read more about it. This is the most effiect automatic transmission you can get in production cars today. slightly more fun to drive... i guess?

4) manual transmission: this is the manual transmission with the clutch and gear selecter... the whole 9 yards. every gear is directly selected by the driver. supposely the most fun to drive.


as to make your automatic transmission more effiecent. well you can buy upgrade parts and what-not such as high stall torque converters. but that is as good as it gets for "upgrading". But in new production cars, the automatic transmission has the ablitly to directly lock up and give you just as good effiency on the high way as a manual.

let me know if you have any more questions.

This post has been edited by Hanyo: Oct 26, 2006 - 5:45 AM