So I have a question that might sound rather noobish, retarded, whatever you wanna call it.
Why dont they make 5 speed automatics? Ive seen 1 5 speed auto and it was in a magazine for old musclecars.. Just curious as to why there arent any 5 speed autos built out regulary. Id rather have the manual myself but I want to know the reason they dont do 5 speed autos..
they do, heaps of new cars have them. either ways i dislike autos no matter how many gears they havebut thats me /opinion
theres 6 speed ones too... they just dont work on our engines/never will lol...
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
the german companies i.e mercedes, bmw etc are using 7 and 8 speed autos now
if i had the time and money i would make one work, but why bother?Originally Posted by Civic Accord Honda
then you have nissan with the cvt, technically 1 speed
Originally posted by ShiRen:
Nice car or not, nobody likes losing a race to an old 4 door Honda.
Id much rather have a manual. I just thought about how I have never seen one before and was like wtf. So I thought something technical might be stopping them. Guess it was just lack of technology
the less parts the lower the chance its going to fail....but auto trans just have high gears.
1989 Honda Accord LX-i
B18c1 swap since 7/2011
175whp and 132tq
Redzone tuned
Actually, in the case of a CVT you have an infinite number of "gear ratios" within the upper and lower boundaries.
not just nissan has the CVT, i drove a new CR-Z that had it too...
they suck, the engine barely revs, it's like driving a vacuum cleaner, engine stays at an almost constant rpm and the car accelerates with the transmission
my hondamatic crx does that if you start off from a standstill, the engine will rev to 2600rpm and stay there and the car will slowly accelerate haha
A lot of cars labeled as five- or six-speed have seven or eight gears. Two sets of like second and third. One set for accelerating, one for decelerating.
Almost every manufacturer has at least one CVT now.
CVT trans's are a different monster altogether, they pretty much dont have any "shift" points
1989 Accord Lx-i hatchback (current DD project)
1986 Olds Cutlass 442 clone (never ending project)
3Geez resident body man
Owner of Wreck-less auto body
my 3geez automatics to have five speedshas four forward gears then goes into lock up TC which makes five
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