Quote Originally Posted by D7
Ben you missed the point. What makes an Automatic an Automatic? Because you (Ben) aren't shifting? But the car still is.

The proper name for the tranmission is an automated-manual. It is a manual transmission without a clutch pedal. The shiting is controlled via computer which can come via the steering-column mounted paddles, center console mounted shifter or the software program when in "automatic" mode but it is still every bit a manual. What seperates a manual from an automatic tranmssion?? A torque converter, which this transmission does not have.



Quote Originally Posted by bryan@GST
Yea I keep hearing great things about it.

I'm anxious to try one out.
I'll bring mine around your parts one day soon and you can check it out.
So it's just the torque converter that makes it a automatic? The fact that it automatically shifts doesn't make it an automatic? If you aren't manually shifting than you aren't driving a manual.