Car Craze

One technology that is all too easily taken for granted is that of transmission. Under normal use, modern transmissions last long enough thereby causing no real worries for most new car shoppers. What is important pertains to the matter of smooth shifting, good performance and fuel economy. Traditionally, manual transmissions provide better mileage than automatics but this is beginning to change with the new generation of electronically controlled automatics.

The transmission’s job is to strike the right balance between responsiveness and efficiency by matching a vehicle’s driving speed to the engine speed. Having more gears provide a better match and smoother shifts which explains why the number of speeds in transmissions has been increasing.